Current features and functionality
Workbench, allows you to create drafts, review and publish content, revert to previous versions, create/manage content and manage files and images uploaded to the site.
- Web pages, with optional sidebar content.
- Clone, the ability to create a new web page from a clone of an existing web page on the site.
- News items, are automatically promoted to the front page and appear in the News section of the site (includes an archive).
- Events, are automatically promoted to the front page and appear in the Events section of the site (includes an archive).
- Person profiles, are optionally promoted to the front page sidebar and appear in the Person profiles section of the site.
- Site managers can add a new Person profile type.
- Custom listing pages to create a custom People profiles listing page.
- Contacts, appear under the "About" section of the site on the "Our people" page.
- Group Contacts, Site Managers can create contact groups.
- Blog posts, which appear on the blog page of the site. Blog posts can be turned on by request.
- Site managers can revise a blog title and add an introduction.
- Site managers can enable and moderate Blog post comments.
- Image galleries
- Home page banners, are a banner photo with a caption and optional link. There can be multiple banners that refresh or are displayed as a slideshow.
- Site managers can enable banner slideshows.
- Promotional items, appear on the sidebar of every page or specified pages on the site.
- Embedded Timeline, to display items along an interactive timeline.
- Embedded Call to Action (CTA), Call to Action (CTAs) can be embedded in Web pages or other content types.
- Embedded Facts and Figures, display a combination of facts and images embedded within another content type, such as a Web page.
- Bibliography, used for scholarly content, such as journal papers and books.
- Awards, used for student awards and scholarships. (Available upon request)
- Opportunities, populate the Opportunities landing page with job/volunteer opportunities. (Available upon request)
- Services, populate the Services landing page (Service Catalogue).
- Projects, organize all of the projects on the Project landing page.
- Site footer, is optional and appears across all pages on the site.
- Special alerts, displays at the top of pages you specify, surrounded by a red border. It is used to convey urgently important information.
- Special alerter role, Site Managers can grant users access to this role to add a special alert.
- Web forms, secure forms (with serial number capability) can submit to email, csv/xls format, and pdf (Web forms are not to be used for payments, see more information on e-commerce).
- Web form results access, users with this role can view web form results.
- Web form results access, users with this role can view web form results.
Clear cache, the ability for Site Managers and Content Editors to clear the cache.
Reports, a selection of reports for Site Managers.
Dashboard includes news from the Web Resources site, let's you see who's online, manage site settings and vocabularies.
- Add Google Analytics tracking code to the site.
- Who's online, the ability to see who is currently logged in to the site.
- Menu management, the ability to view all content placed in the site hierarchy and reorder navigation menu items.
- Find and fix broken links.
- Redirects allow Site Managers to create redirects and view a list of 'page not found' errors.
- Home page banner settings
- Shortcuts bar - a toolbar to which Site Managers can add links. This is useful for creating links to common-used actions or web pages within your site.
- Vocabularies - Site managers can add terms to taxonomies (Audience, Blog tags, Contact groups, Event tags, Profile type, Service categories).
- Slack/Mattermost integration provides notification via Slack or Mattermost when content is put in needs review status and/or published.
- Submit a request.
- View WCMS how-to documents.
Site management
Content management
- Delete uploaded documents and images
- Schedule content to publish/unpublish
- Sort and group Contacts
- Create Contact group listing page
- URL changes when moving or renaming content
Website content functionality:
- Custom page titles can now be set with meta tags.
- Expandable/collapsible content areas.
- RSS feeds for News and Events.
- Facebook, Twitter, and Tintwidgets
- YouTube, Vimeo and Livestream widgets
- MailChimp and Mailman subscription widgets
- Google map, embed a map from Google Maps and Google My Maps within various content types.
- Abbreviation tags
- 2-column layout
- Adding markup for inserted/deleted text
- Anchor links
- LaTeX equations
- Organizational chart
- Scheduled content publishing and unpublishing
- Sort and group contacts
- Use find and replace
- Create Quick links
General:
- Show/hide revision elements button, a toggle button to view a page as a visitor would see it.
Conference template
- Conference session
- Conference speaker
- Conference sponsor
- Conference video
- Conference links
- Conference advertisement