New Features
There is now a “simple search” field at the top of the Directory that uses Active Directory’s Ambiguous Name Resolution index to return results from multiple fields. These are all “starts with” searches, so searching for “Joe” will return people whose first or last names start with “Joe”. All of the old search options are still available in the Advanced Search section on the same page.
Updates
- Drupal feeds 7.x-2.0-beta1
- WordPress bbPress 2.5.8
- WordPress Post Types Order 1.8.2
- WordPress qTranslate X 3.4
- WordPress Recent Posts Widget Extended 0.9.9.1
Tweaks and Fixes
- When you are editing a piece of content in Drupal the “Owner” of that content will be updated to be you once you save it. If you wish to set the “Owner” to someone else, you can do so in the Permissions settings while editing. This matches how “Owner”s are already set when editing Page settings in Drupal.
- WordPress sites with the Subscribe2 plugin enabled were sending up to four emails to the author of a post when it was published. This is apparently a “feature” of Subscribe2, giving authors an opportunity to see examples of all the possible emails the plugin is sending to subscribers. These emails are no longer being sent to post authors, but you can subscribe yourself to your own site(s) if you wish to continue receiving emails of your posts. If you were already subscribed, no action is required on your part.
- The “Body” field of Drupal RSS Page content will now be shown when the content is displayed, not just when it is being edited. The body will appear above the list of RSS feed links.
- HTML tables that are wider than the content area in Drupal will now be wrapped in a special element after the page loads that allows for horizontal scrolling, rather than having the table overflow out of the contents region.
- We have fixed issues in Drupal that prevented editors from adding space around images and links around images in table cells. Please note that due to an issue with how Internet Explorer communicates with pop-up windows, editing in IE is still not supported at this time. Editing in other browsers, such as Firefox, Chrome, or Safari is advised.
- The correct space between profiles when displayed as a list of “cards” will now be applied, even if there are non-profile nodes on the page with the list. Previously, these non-profiles had been throwing off the even/odd count on which items to apply the margin.
- The Google Fonts Domine, Open Sans, and Rosarivo are now loaded on the Middlebury and MIIS Drupal sites. These will be used for some text styles going forward, to better match the fonts already in use for print publications.
- The WordPress Jetpack plugin’s Custom Content Type submodule has been re-enabled.
- The Library Hours in that site’s sidebar will no longer include the date as it was always the current day’s date.
- The image slider on the Davis UWC Scholars site is even more slightly faster.
Thanks for the updates. I want to particularly draw attention to the fact that the new “basic” field is “starts with” only, meaning that you can’t just put in someone’s extension if that’s what you’re looking for – you need the full number (or, better yet, to use the Phone Number field, which does a “contains” search.)
Thank you for highlighting that, Zach. It’s a limitation of how the Active Directory’s indexes are built and the search would be significantly slower if we changed the “simple search” to a “contains” instead of a “starts with” search as it would be searching across over a dozen attributes with no pre-built index.
Still, the “simple search” interface is something we’ve been meaning to add to the Directory for a long time and are happy to have it in place. The “advanced search” fields remain for those who prefer more control over their search.
Hi, senior at the college. This feature is great!