Find information on the UMass Chan Content Management System, Optimizely. Learn how to populate your web pages, read about bugs, and new or updated functionality.
mar 8, 2023
Hero Video Block
The Hero video block allows a video to be used as a hero on the web page. This block also allows for a dropdown list of links to be centered over the video.
Updates to News Article Details Pages for the UMass Chan News site.
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Advanced functionality,Training, Leslie Rutter
ene 26, 2023
UMass Chan News Training Guide
Process and instructions on editing the UMass Chan News site.
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Advanced functionality,Tips and Tricks,Training, Leslie Rutter
nov 3, 2022
Using the Looping Hero Video Block
Describes how to use the Looping Hero Video block on the UMass Chan Optimizely CMS
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Advanced functionality,Blocks,Heros, Keith Pelletier
jul 5, 2022
Workflow approval process
Setting up workflow to create an approval process before content is published.
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Advanced functionality,Tips and Tricks,Training, Leslie Rutter
jun 9, 2022
Membership Areas
A CMS Membership Area is a web page, and any of its child pages, that is restricted to a certain User Group and requires membership account to log in.
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Advanced functionality,Process,Training, Keith Pelletier
feb 28, 2022
BLOCK: Grid listing block
Grid listing block allows editors to set a list of items in a grid and allow some control over the layout of that grid. Editors can choose to filter by page type. For now, we have limited page types with the ability to add more in future sprints. We started with Staff Page as this page has a very specific view/layout. We added generic page since this is the most commonly used page type.
The Taxonomy Search Block allows you to create a list of items that have been tagged with taxonomy categories. This block will list faculty, labs, blogs and UMass Chan News news articles.
News Article Lists filtering by taxonomy (categories)
Use the News Listing Block to display a list of News Pages or UMass Chan News News Article pages. This will list pages by date in descending order (most recent first). You can limit the amount…
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Advanced functionality,Blocks,Tips and Tricks, Leslie Rutter