CMS Changes
Metadata Capture Screen Changes
2007-08-01
Metadata Capture Screen Update
The Metadata Capture Capture Screen has been updated to reflect requests from users and changes to the University's search engine.
Description Field
Description is no longer a mandatory field. Why? Two main reasons:
- Errors and non-sensical data from auto population • We could not determine accurate and sensible descriptions for all of the content types in the CMS. The auto descriptions where muddying the water as opposed to adding value to the content.
- Lack of user review • Users do not generally review this field.
Resource Type Field
Around 90% of the content in the CMS was being tagged as 'other'. This lessens the usefullness of this field.
This field has been made 'optional' and placed on the 'Extended Fields' tab of the metadata capture screen.
2007-04-05 to 2007-04-16
CMS Unavailable due to maintenance
The CMS will be unavailable for user access from 5PM, Thursday 5th April, 2007 to 8AM, Monday 16th April, 2007. During this time, it will not be possible to update web content managed by the CMS (unless by prior arrangement with the ITS Web Centre.
Why is this outage occuring?
This scheduled outage is to upgrade the ContentStore in the CMS to a new format, and to migrate production data from the current ContentStore to the new one.
Archived Changes
2006-10-17
CMS Currently Unavailable
The CMS will be unavailable for web content changes from 3:30PM today (Tuesday, 17th October). During this time, users will be unable to log into the CMS.
Why? The CMS Team needs to take the system off-line to perform some urgent system tests.
When will the CMS be back? The CMS will be back no later than 8AM on Wednesday, 18th October, 2006.
2006-08-16 - CMS Search
Moving the CMS search from the CMS server (fulcrum) to the Metatagger server (awooga).
The CMS service will be available during the change, only the search function will be affected.
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