Our ServicesSupport for Web publishing at Santa Clara University is provided by the Office of Marketing and Communications, Information Services, the Webmaster and Web Applications Developer in the Media Services department, and system and network administrators in the Information Technology department. 
Web Publishing NewsCommonspot database outage Wednesday 1/14The Commonspot database server will be offline for maintenance for a brief period of time on Wednesday evening, Jan. 14th. We expect the actual outage to be for 15 minutes or less. Commonspot pages will not be served from the cms or www web servers during the outage. Commonspot authoring will be disabled on the cms server between 9 and 11pm on Wednesday, to avoid interference with the database server maintenance process. Read More »Content copied from Word The text editor used in the Event Calendar, Survey system, and Blog element now includes a new toolbar icon to paste content copied from Word. Use this to clean up the excess HTML that Word applies before when copying/pasting content in the text editor. Read More »
About Template Inheritance Have you encountered this problem? You've made a change to the navigation menu in your site's template, but you don't see that change reflected on one or more pages in your site. This usually results from page-level edits interfering with the ability of that page to inherit template-based changes. A Step-By-Step Guide page has been added that describes how this problem can be corrected. Read More »
Commonspot Session Timeout The timeout for inactive sessions has been extended to 30 minutes. After a half-hour of inactivity, you'll be logged out of Commonspot. Read More »
Commonspot Contributor Guide The Commonspot Help page on the Web Publishing site includes a link to the full documentation for Commonspot provided by Paperthin. This comprehensive document describes the delivered functionality in Commonspot version 4.6 - it won't document custom elements within our installation, such as the blog, survey manager, event calendar, or phonebook elements, but does cover the basic functions of the content management system. You'll need to login to Commonspot to view this PDF. Read More »
Hours Schedule ManagerA new system is available to manage scheduled hours of operation for SCU offices, service points, buildings, and office hours for individuals. Two custom elements are also available for display of hours schedules within a Commonspot page. Read the tutorial page in the Web Publishing site for more information. Read More »Introduction to Commonspot 5 The next release of Commonspot will introduce changes to the system's interface. We've put together a few documents that compare the current system with Commonspot 5. Read More »
Campus Map Updated The images in the Web version of the campus map have been updated. The Phonebook database is also in the process of being updated to reflect moves of departments to new locations on campus. Read More »
Media PlayerA new element has been added to the Content Well element gallery category that will allow you to embed a video or audio file player in a Commonspot page. Read More »Additional settings for the Blog elementThe blog element now accepts a few new custom script parameters, which will allow you to change the sort order of the blog, and apply a few different presentation styles. Read More » |
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