Web Advisory Committee Minutes - September 22, 2021

Attendance (35/74)

Donald Duff-McCracken (Chair), Melissa Holst (Secretary) Amanda Vos, Beth Cotter, Bernice Ma, Charlotte Armstrong, Chris Francis, Daniella Cross, Danielle Jeanneault, Elizabeth Rogers, Erica Clement-Goudy, Greg McIntyre, George Choy, Graham Faulkner, Herbert Balagtas, Jessica Barch, Jennifer Halcrow, Joe Kwan, Kathryn Fedy, Kevin Paxman, Lannois Carroll-Woolery, Liam Morland, Marlon Griffith, Michael Tjendra, Michelle Douglas-Mills, Nick Di Benedetto, Pratik Patel, Rebecca Graper, Sarah Forgrave, Stephanie Longway, Tasha Glover, Tom Graham, Tara Hillis, Traci Dow, Troy Grandy

Absent:

Amy Meredith, Anar Jahangirli, Andre Gignac, Andrea Jennings, Andrew Smith, Adriann Kennedy, Alyssa Clarkson, Annaka Willemsen, Cassie Bechard, Dawn Charlton, Derek Leung, Elizabeth Kleisath, Grace Wong Chong, Greg Smith, Isaac Morland, Iva Badjari, Janice Cook, Jen Kinkle, Jason Greatrex, Jay Mielke, Jennifer Gillies, Jim Johnston, Jodi Szimanski, Lathangi Ganesharatnam, Laurel Forbes, Lisa Brackenridge, Lori Suess, Marta Bailey, Martin LeBlanc, Melanie Scott, Natasha Jennings, Nancy Schnarr, Pavol Chvala, Ryan Lahti, Sarah Cooper, Stephanie Koerne, Trevor Ridgeway, Tom Cauduro, Wendy Pilpott

Approval of the Minutes of Previous Meeting

The minutes from the previous meeting were accepted as distributed.

Business Arising

Welcomed new member Nick Di Benedetto (Math Faculty)

WCMS Training/Support Update (Charlotte Armstrong )

WCMS Technical Update (Kevin Paxman)

  • WCMS 3.0.3 has shipped. Full release notes are on the Web Resources site. Highlights include:
    • Support for cloning pages of content
    • New blocks for profile teaser and automatic profile listing blocks
    • Fixed many known issues, including videos not displaying when logged in
  • The “release comparison” and “known issues” pages on the Building the Next WCMS site have been updated to reflect the changes from 3.0.3
  • Full details are on Web Resources, but new highlights from the current sprint include:
    • Consulting on updates to Campus check-in app
    • Beginning to work on ADFS login for WCMS 2
    • Global nav/global banner changes for WCMS 2 and 3
    • Prep work for authenticated sites in WCMS 3
    • Adjustments to prevent potential link overflow in WCMS 3’s site nav
  • WCMS 2 has silently added a new feature, “body content search report”, which allows you to search sitewide for text that is in the body field (other fields are not supported)

WCMS 3 General Updates (Joe Kwan)

Current and upcoming development roadmap

  • next batch WCMS 2 themes will be more transparent
  • for more information refer to Roadmap Site

Migration

  • All migration sites are still on hold, unless they are smaller sites, which in that case they are being moved forward.
  • Still working on training and how this will be facilitated to the wide group of areas on campus.
    • was disucssion on a community training site, this could be a space where everyone comes together and support each other or does each unit have there own training site.
    • alot of backend details that still need to be worked out.
    • is training mandatory, as this was discussed before and moving forward still wanting it to be 
    • can we outsource training this would come as an added cost, but may be worth looking into futher.
      • Joe will reach out to appropiate parties to inquire.
    • should have thought about training training before as this is a massive undertaking and feel that it was not properly managed.
      • Joe - doing the best that we can, and listening to everyone's concerns and trying our best given the magnatued of this project
  • Seems to be alot more delays than anticpated, departments have acquired more costs with hiring to help with the sites.
  • Alongside the migration departments are also juggling other projects.
  • We really need to focus and/or look at other options in order to move the migration forward.

Open Scholar update

  • Joyce Barlow working on how to best to deliver project updates, will co-present at next WAC meeting with more information
  • AODA - have started the analysis work on this, have request ot be consulted through this process as time is ticking, deadline November 2022.

Other Business

None.

Meeting Adjournment

Meeting adjourned at 4:39 pm