Release Notes V1.13 - In Collaboration with the Poorvu Teaching and Learning Center

Thursday, February 20, 2025
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What’s changed?

We are thrilled to announce the latest feature release for YaleSites, developed in partnership with the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning. This collaboration exemplifies our shared vision with the Yale community and reinforces YaleSites’ commitment to open-source development. The Poorvu Center has made significant contributions to the YaleSites platform, working alongside their development partner iFactory to bring these features to life. The New Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning website will go live this spring.

Power up your content organization with new View and Taxonomy enhancements

The new enhanced Views and Taxonomy features bring new ways to showcase and filter your content. With custom vocabularies, advanced filtering options, and the ability to show off pinned content, you’ll have more control than ever over how your content is organized and presented to your audience.

view block with new features added

Improve content discovery with the Taxonomy Display block

The new Taxonomy Display block enhances content organization by clearly displaying all taxonomy terms (besides “Tags”) assigned to each node. This feature improves site navigation and content discoverability by making your taxonomic structure visible and accessible, whether for courses, departments, or other specialized content.

new taxonomy display block in action

Fixes and Improvements

Vendor Contribution Work

  • Added two new taxonomy vocabularies
    • Audience—available for all content types
    • Custom Vocabulary—available for all content types and renamable in Site Settings
  • Added taxonomy filter dropdown menus to the View block
  • Enhanced pinned content display in View blocks with custom label options
  • Added Taxonomy Display block that shows and links to all terms assigned to the current node
  • Added CampusGroups event integration
  • Added Video Banner block

User Feedback-Based Improvements

  • Improved mobile responsiveness of Custom Cards on smaller screens
  • Fixed color contrast bug in the Mega Footer
  • Added an option to hide “Add to Calendar” links for Event Views
  • Added ability to include current page in View block displays
  • Resolved page cloning error that caused white screen when specific blocks were present
  • Added vertical alignment options for Content Spotlight blocks
  • Fixed various caching issues with the View block

DevOps

  • Fonts now stay available when using npm run develop
  • Refactored date/times to use common renderer where possible
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Thanks to the collective expertise, talent, and creativity of our partners at iFactory and the YaleSites team, our new Poorvu Center website is beyond anything that we could have imagined!  Our primary goal for the new site was to create a user-friendly experience for visitors on campus and beyond – and the team delivered.

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Lucas Swineford, Executive Director, Digital Education, Poorvu Center