News and Updates about the SERC Content Management System
Improved Form Editing Tool
Posted: Jun 15 2010
The interface for editing forms has been revamped. In addition to working differently it also now tracks (and allows reverting to) past revisions of forms.
Posted: Jun 15 2010
The interface for editing forms has been revamped. In addition to working differently it also now tracks (and allows reverting to) past revisions of forms.
Simultaneous Editing Detection
Posted: Jun 2 2010
The CMS will now detect and provide a warning when you attempt to edit a page that has been recently (in the last 15 minutes) edited by another user.
Posted: Jun 2 2010
The CMS will now detect and provide a warning when you attempt to edit a page that has been recently (in the last 15 minutes) edited by another user.
Firefox-HTML Bug Fixed
Posted: Jul 14 2009
We've upgrade the underlying tools that support the editing system and as a result the bug in HTML mode when using Firefox (where spaces were randomly removed from any text you pasted in) should be fixed.
Posted: Jul 14 2009
We've upgrade the underlying tools that support the editing system and as a result the bug in HTML mode when using Firefox (where spaces were randomly removed from any text you pasted in) should be fixed.
Revised Page Urls
Posted: Jan 16 2009
The page creation interface has been revised to allow you to specify the url.
Posted: Jan 16 2009
The page creation interface has been revised to allow you to specify the url.
No CAPTCHAs for Logged in Folks
Posted: Nov 11 2008
People who are logged in will no longer have to fill out the CAPTCHA's at the bottom of forms, since they've already proved their humanity by signing up for an account. Forms that request email addresses and first/last names will also have those fields pre-filled out based on existing account information.
Posted: Nov 11 2008
People who are logged in will no longer have to fill out the CAPTCHA's at the bottom of forms, since they've already proved their humanity by signing up for an account. Forms that request email addresses and first/last names will also have those fields pre-filled out based on existing account information.
Firefox-HTML mode bug
Posted: Oct 16 2008
There is a bug in the current version of Firefox that appears to randomly remove spaces between words when editing in the html view.
Posted: Oct 16 2008
There is a bug in the current version of Firefox that appears to randomly remove spaces between words when editing in the html view.
How to Fix Unwanted Bolding
Posted: Oct 16 2008
Several people have run into problems with text turning bold at some point in a page and then not being able unbold the text. Here's what's going on and a simple solution.
Posted: Oct 16 2008
Several people have run into problems with text turning bold at some point in a page and then not being able unbold the text. Here's what's going on and a simple solution.
Cleaning MS-Word Detrius
Posted: Oct 14 2008
The editing interface now attempts to strip ugly formatting tags from text that is copy and pasted in from Word. Simply saving the text should do the trick. Let me know if this doesn't work or if there appear to be unwanted side-effects of this feature (resulting in wanted stuff disappearing).
Posted: Oct 14 2008
The editing interface now attempts to strip ugly formatting tags from text that is copy and pasted in from Word. Simply saving the text should do the trick. Let me know if this doesn't work or if there appear to be unwanted side-effects of this feature (resulting in wanted stuff disappearing).
Classic Interface Available
Posted: Sep 23 2008
Hopefully not following the New Coke tradition there is now a Classic Editing Level option that will give you the old non-WYSIWYG interface. This is for emergency use if the new interface seems to blow up on something. Please let me know in that case so I can make it not blow up.
Posted: Sep 23 2008
Hopefully not following the New Coke tradition there is now a Classic Editing Level option that will give you the old non-WYSIWYG interface. This is for emergency use if the new interface seems to blow up on something. Please let me know in that case so I can make it not blow up.
Submitted Materials can be Tracked
Posted: Sep 22 2008
The final destination of materials submitted through forms which are subsequently moved into pages (through our usual semi-automatic process) is now tracked. So that when looking at the original submission (in the queue) you can follow the "moved here" link to go to the page that submission transfered to. Sadly this is not retroactive...
Posted: Sep 22 2008
The final destination of materials submitted through forms which are subsequently moved into pages (through our usual semi-automatic process) is now tracked. So that when looking at the original submission (in the queue) you can follow the "moved here" link to go to the page that submission transfered to. Sadly this is not retroactive...
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