SDP 1.48.0 release notes

SDP release 1.48.0 is scheduled for Monday 13 May 2024.

Summary

The major focus for release 1.48.0 is to deliver:

• Update Tide to Drupal 10.2.5

• Update PHP to 8.3

• Several Ripple updates

• Feature enhancements:

  • Landing page header to support call to action with full header image

  • Footer menu: ability to control the display to show 1 or 2 levels

• Bug fixes:

  • Image captions are back

* Display configuration updates made via feature flags are a site admin or admin task and require a support request.

Back end: Tide CMS updates

CMS system and security updates

• Update Tide to Drupal 10.2.5

• Update PHP to 8.3

New CMS features and feature updates

• Search listing:

  • added basic text component above search listing results

  • JSON blob configuration in the Search Configuration field will override user input in the Listing configuration, Global filters, User filters and Results sections in the user interface

  • no results message behaviour amended for ISE list

  • enabled search filters to display ‘open’ on page load via JSON blob

  • enabled addition of Secondary campaign

  • DTP technical publications search listing project, indexing media items

• Content collection component: added 2 more content types to improve functionality: Event, Publication (currently only enabled for Landing page and News)

• Search listing content type and Content collection component: JSON blob configuration now works on both

• Content category attribute: added mandatory content category selection in all core content types in SDP core; attribute selection predefined for some content types (news, event, grant, search listing)

• Maps:

  • map detail card heading is hyperlinked to detail page

  • popup closes when user clicks back on map, no longer needs to manually close popup

  • VSBA data export CSV new column added

• Data tables: created table cell types that hyperlink automatically for common use cases (URL, email, telephone)

• Share this page: sharing a page via WhatsApp and email can now be enabled via feature flag*

• Accordions: ability to add a rich-text description that displays between accordion title and first accordion item

• Feedback: changed manual export of all Was this page helpful feedback to an automated task

CMS bug fixes

• Node/page save default option is ‘Draft’ not ‘Published’ (bug inadvertently introduced in 1.47)

• Permissions:

  • Approver can do bulk archiving of pages they have permission to archive

  • Approver can not edit taxonomies/vocabs on all CMS instances

• Search listing:

  • now includes mandatory, autopopulating Department field

  • profile titles now findable via site search on FPSR site

• Publications: Share links now working

• Sitemap: custom link is now generated when new Simple XML sitemap added

• Iframe embed: URL character limit increased from 255 to 400

• CMS top menu: items removed from the ‘CMS support’ menu and renamed to ‘Help’ due to old SDP website being deprecated, most content archived and moved to SDP help portal

• Feedback: was this page helpful yes or no answer was being redacted in error. Now being retained in datalayer. Submission of feedback form bug fixed for EPA

• Media items: 700,000 duplicate media items removed

• News: publish date display bug fixed (VicPol)

CMS features deprecated

• Latest events component deprecated (instead use the Content collection component or the Search listing content type)

• Header extras > Search banner > Search block: 2 options removed from the dropdown (News, Events); these options were causing an error and are not required on Search banner now we have the Search listing content type and Content collection component

• Call to action: card version deprecated; banner version retained (BE to be updated in future)

Front end: Ripple 2.7.0, 2.7.1, 2.8.0, 2.8.1, 2.8.2, 2.8.3 updates

Ripple 2 new features

• Header with hero image can include CTA button (dark theme)

• Footer: you can control to display 1 level of menu or 2 via feature flag*

• Share this page: added WhatsApp and email options (via service desk request)

• ISE search listing results: table view supports ‘More info / Less info’ accordion to allow compact view and user control

• Header: added Call to action button and links

• Maps:

  • background setting updated in JSON configuration for VSBA map

  • VicPol police station locator map developed

  • maps design and functionality review and updates

• News pages/content type: you can turn off display of ‘Published’ label and updated date on front end via feature flag*

Ripple 2 bug fixes

• Embedded documents:

  • 'Last updated date' will now display on FE as it did with Ripple 1

  • relative document links work

• Form label text size, colour and spacing review and update

• Search listing:

  • results design and functionality review and update

  • search field text size and predictive text behaviour review and update

  • dropdown selection keyboard actions review and update for accessibility

  • ‘No results’ message no longer displaying briefly before results load

  • news results list view displays full URL

• Kinder calculator event tracking bug fixed

• Promo card spacing reviewed and updated

• Profile image alt text bug fixed

• Anchor link: code displaying as text removed

• Image captions display bug fixed

• Social media footer links: LinkedIn logo displaying for URL ‘au.linkedin.com’ as well as ‘linkedin.com’

• Footer: the (default) Vic Gov logo can be removed on independent sites via feature flag*

• Tables display full-width (no background white box displaying on pages with grey background)

• VSBA map: Clear search filter button hover behaviour reviewed and updated; focus colour updated

• Grants content type: buttons in accordions display bug fixed

• Expandable sections behaviour (e.g. Was this page helpful radios): fixed a regression bug related to the addition of the open-by-default search filters