Web Advisory Committee Minutes - September 16, 2020

3:00 p.m., 16 September 2020, Microsoft Teams

Attendance

Donald Duff-McCracken (Chair), Melissa Holst (Secretary) Marta Bailey, Lannois Carroll-Woolery, Tom Cauduro, Janice Cook, Daniella Cross, Michelle Douglas-Mills, Graham Faulkner, Sarah Forgrave, Chris Francis, Tasha Glover, Tom Graham, Troy Grandy, Marlon Griffith, Andrea Jennings, Jennifer Halcrow, Tara Hillis, Danielle Jeanneault, Adriann Kennedy, Joe Kwan, Jen Konkle, Ryan Lahti, Derek Leung, Stephanie Longeway, Liam Morland, Amy Meredith, Pratik Patel, Kevin Paxman, Wendy Pilpott, Elizabeth Rogers, Trevor Ridgeway, Carlos Saavedra, Nancy Schnarr, Andrew Smith, Greg Smith, Jodi Szimanski, Michael Tjendra

Absent:

Iva Badjari, Herbert Balagtas, Lisa Brackenridge, Dawn Charlton, Pavol Chvala, Alyssa Clarkson, Erica Clement-GoudyBeth Cotter, Laurel Forbes, Lathangi Ganesharatnam, Jason Greatrex, Jennifer Gillies, Jim Johnston, Martin LeBlanc, Elizabeth Kleisath, Stephanie Koerne, Jay Mielke, Isaac Morland, Melanie Scott, Lori Suess, Annaka Willemsen.

Approval of the Minutes of Previous Meeting

The minutes from the previous meeting were accepted as distributed.

Don officially welcomed two new members, Greg McIntyre and Patrick Patel to the committee.

WCMS 3 Horizontal Navigation Project & Nav Working Group (Tom Graham)

  • Nav Working Group is in full swing, and are on the right track with moving forward.
  • Confirmed that there will be up to 10 items across top menu (depending on link sizes).
  • One can view the Wireframes.
  • It was noted that they will keep this committee up-to-date of the progress through email.
  • Feedback is welcomed, please email Tom Graham.

Google Search (Joe Kwan)

  • New launch dated for end of October 2020 at the latest, at this point team is on target with this date.
  • More details to follow, it was mentioned that if anyone has questions please feel free to email Joe Kwan directly.

WCMS 3 Demos New Dashbuilder/Layout Builder (Kevin Paxman)

  • Demo was presented to the group.
  • Have made this more customizable with more options for the user.
  • Lots of positive feedback pertaining the new look.

WCMS Training/Support update (Andrea Jennings)

WCMS 3 updates

WCMS Kitchen sink survey

  • At the last meeting, I had asked that anyone who answered ‘yes’ to specific questions from the WCMS Kitchen sink survey reach out to the team for some follow-up questions, specifically to provide more information on Live stream, tables, and metatags. No one has reached out over the last month, so we are going to be sending out some direct follow-up questions by early next week. I’ll send them to the main POC email list, as well as include the information in the upcoming UWweb email.

    But today we would like to take some time to ask this group some of the questions directly, calling on those who would like to answer.

Metatags:

  • using the Teams "raise your hand" feature, please "raise your hand" if you have ever set up meta information on a single piece of content that uses different information between Facebook (Open Graph) and Twitter. 
  • please "raise your hand" if, other than the "robots" choices, you ever add additional meta information that isn't set by default.
  • please "raise your hand" if anyone has any sort of meta information that they'd like to add at the page level that they currently can't add, or have any additional comments about meta information.

Livestream

  • please "raise your hand" if you are aware of anyone that is literally using or planning to use the website called "Livestream" to live stream videos and is currently embedding them on the page? Which, using or planning.
  • please "raise your hand" if are you currently embedding live streams using either Vimeo or YouTube.
  • please "raise your hand" if you have live streams elsewhere that you are not embedding in the WCMS that you would like to.

WCMS course offerings

  • Regarding the WCMS courses, we’re wondering if POCs are liking and managing with their staff completing the WCMS training courses via LEARN, or if there may be a need or desire for an in-class workshop for WCMS 2.

WCMS Technical Update (Kevin Paxman)

  • Patching for “500” errors – Friday between 9 and 10am
  • Announcement coming soon re: 2.9.0 release schedule; intending to start updating pilots next week and production the week following, with forms and vote sites the week after that
  • Work to re-establish the secondary database for forms sites to happen towards the middle of October
  • Focus points in this sprint include (a detailed list is not currently available, but will be posted to the web development roadmap page on Web Resources in the near future):
    • Documentation for implementation of additional content types and content blocks
    • Pantheon upstream development
    • Improvements on facts and figures implementation
    • Additional layouts for Dashboard
    • Improvements for workflow to Pattern Lab
    • Layout builder improvements
    • Contrib module updates
    • Search work

Meeting Adjournment

The meeting adjourned at 4:47 p.m.