Topics Related to Digital Commons 2.0

Drupal 7 Migration

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...oh wait, that opening has been taken. Allow me to start again.

New Theme

Portal Theme

Themes are the part of Drupal that you, and anyone else visiting your Drupal powered application, see when they view any page in their browser. It’s also the set of files that define the visual look and feel of your site.

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Summary field. This page displays the Blog available on the Digital Commons platform. It serves as a baseline for visual regression testing when code is deployed to the platform. Note that not every combination shown is desirable or a best practice.

November We Are Digital Commons

We Are Digital Commons is a limited quarterly event where the Digital Solutions team shares with the community updates on the migration from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9.

Big Change: Creating and Publishing New Pages

You may be aware that content cleanup is underway to prepare for the upcoming platform upgrade. This content cleanup process has brought an important issue to our attention. The issue is: many pages are being created without being placed in the menu.

Our Support/Agile Process

This blog was updated in February 2022

An example of how our team utilizes an Agile/Scrum process: 

The Problem

A web manager notices that on video cards, it shows a square shape instead of a triangular one. That manager submits a ServiceNow ticket.

The Importance of a Clean Sitemap

This blog is from a presentation at the We Are Digital Commons event on October 29, 2019. 

Managing how new content is incorporated into the website is the single most important task of the website manager.