Here's what's in our September 2022 release.
Content updates
Image gallery help links open in a new window
The image gallery component help links now open in a new window. Opening in the same window had resulted in editors losing work.
Learn how to create an image gallery.
Added back button when inserting media items
Editors were stuck in a loop when trying to add a media item to a page. We've added a back button to stop this from happening.
Learn more about images, video, audio and documents.
Adding internal links made easier
When you search for an internal link, results will display:
page title
site/site section
published state (published, draft or archived)
node number
parent publication (if linking to a publication child page).
Learn how to format basic text.
Statistics grid on publication content type
The statistics grid will be available on the publication content type. This includes on child pages.
Preview pages in Google search
Google search results no longer display our CMS preview pages. Because they are unpublished pages, this resulted in 404 errors.
Learn how to preview and share draft pages.
Adding a table of contents to your sitemap
Site admins can now add a table of contents to their domain sitemap on the CMS taxonomy page.
View the vic.gov.au sitemap.
Form improvements
Form users can now see which forms they have already downloaded.
Before this update, editors had no way of knowing this. This has caused duplicate exports and deleting the wrong submissions.
Learn how to build and maintain forms.
Spaces in file names replaced with dashes
The CMS would replace spaces in file names with numbers and special characters (%20). This will change to dashes (-).
For example, the:
old version will display as:
Private%20Wildlife%20Licence%20Application%20Form%20v21.2.pdf
new version will display as:
Private-Wildlife-Licence-Application-Form-v21.2.pdf.
Learn more about images, video, audio and documents.
Table of content updates
We've reviewed and improved the copy when adding a table of contents.
We've also removed accordions from the table of contents due to functionality issues. To feature the accordion heading in the table of contents, add:
a basic text component above the accordion
the appropriate heading style (usually H2) in the rich text editor.
Learn how to show table of contents.
Development
Accessibility improvements
Each content component will have its own unique ID.
Form error text is now specific to the field.
Page load times improved
We've improved load times across all sites, particularly those with deep menus.
Other development work
We've changed the CMS scrape and migration functionality. Now we can complete it without deployment, and admin developers can run it.
We've removed the admin toolbar search from the CMS.
Semi sites can now add content in the demo environment.
Cleaned up the root composer.
We've disabled and removed 'tide_event_atdw'.
Deprecated code is now supported.
Site improvements and bug fixes
Admins viewing preview links
Admins with no site section permissions can now view preview pages.
Button links opening in a new tab or window
The option to open a button link in a new tab or window now works as expected
Cloning pages with site sections
Site and primary site values now transfer to cloned pages.
News items in site search results
Search results now display news item summaries.
Redirects with a trailing slash error
Redirects with a trailing slash no longer fail (404). A trailing slash is a forward slash (/) at the end of a URL—for example, https://www.vic.gov.au/.
Sub-site pages displaying in CMS search results
If a page features more than one sub-site, it no longer displays all instances in the CMS 'content' page.
Clearing search filters on the organisation listing page
On our organisation listing page, clearing filters no longer causes an exception.
Banner logo alt text
Alternative text - or 'alt text' - now renders on banner logos.
Test environment user interface
The text environment now shows the correct user interface (UI).