Design Changes (look and feel)

Slider – Made minor design changes to the slider to improve end-user experience.

Functionality Changes

Holiday Calendar Date – Added the ability to customize date format display for Languages.

Excerpts – Added ability to display hyperlinks in the automated excerpt generated for posts. If a hyperlink is added in the beginning of a blog post it will now display in the News & Events Listing Excerpt. A hyperlink can be added in the excerpt field by adding it in HTML. Please Note: Hyperlinks will not display on the home page blogroll.

Ambassador Template – Removed the unused “Name” field.

Youku – Added option to embed Youko in the slider, body of posts and shortcodes sidebar.

Accordion – Enabled the “Text” tab in Accordion content fields.

Related Posts – Added option to include Tags in Related Posts sidebar item.

Alerts – Updated the functionality of Alerts so that the English operates independently from any language alerts.

Instructions for New Functionality

Holiday Calendar Date – Create a Custom Date for Language

1. Create or Edit a Holiday Page.
2. In the CUSTOM EVENT DATE (LANGUAGE) field, Enter the desired date display format. NOTE: THE CUSTOM DATE ENTERED WILL OVERRIDE THE EVENT DATE LANGUAGE FIELD FORMAT.
3. Click PUBLISH or UPDATE.

Youku Slider Embed

To embed a Youko video in the slider, first acquire the proper URL

1. Beneath the desired video, Copy the FLASH ADDRESS.
2. Replace “http://” with “https://” at the beginning of the URL.  For example: http://player.youku.com/player.php/sid/XMTg3OTE1MDU3Mg==/v.swf becomes: https://player.youku.com/player.php/sid/XMTg3OTE1MDU3Mg==/v.swf
3. Navigate to NEW SLIDE and Select YOUKU VIDEO.
4. Paste URL into YOUKO VIDEO field.
5. Follow standard procedure to create slide.

Youku Post/Page Body or Shortcode Embed

1. 1. Beneath the desired video, Copy the HTML CODE URL.
   2. Replace “http://” with “https://” at the beginning of the URL.
   3. Set WIDTH to 100%.
   4. Set HEIGHT to 400 for Post/Page body embed and 200 for Shortcode embed.
   5. Follow standard procedure to create Post, Page or Shortcode.

For example:

Post/Page Body:
<embed src=”https://player.youku.com/player.php/sid/XMTg3OTE1MDU3Mg==/v.swf” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”100%” height=”400″ align=”middle”></embed>

Shortcode:
<embed src=”https://player.youku.com/player.php/sid/XMTg3OTE1MDU3Mg==/v.swf” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”100%” height=”200″ align=”middle”></embed>

Include Tags in Related Posts

1. Add RELATED POSTS sidebar or Navigate to the RELATED POSTS sidebar within a page.
2. Check desired tags from Tags section.
3. Click PUBLISH or UPDATE.

By Office of Platforms | 23 March, 2017 | Topics: News, Release Notes | Tags: release notes