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SCU » Introduction to Web Publishing services

Support for Web publishing at Santa Clara University is provided by the Office of Marketing and Communications, Information Services, the University Webmaster and Web Applications Developer in the Media Services department, and system and network administrators in the Information Technology department.

Content copied from Word

The text editor used in the Event Calendar, Survey system, and Blog element now includes a new toolbar icon to paste content copied from Word. Use this to clean up the excess HTML that Word applies before when copying/pasting content in the text editor.

Dec. 19, 2008| Permalink
About Template Inheritance

Have you encountered this problem? You've made a change to the navigation menu in your site's template, but you don't see that change reflected on one or more pages in your site. This usually results from page-level edits interfering with the ability of that page to inherit template-based changes. A Step-By-Step Guide page has been added that describes how this problem can be corrected.

Dec. 12, 2008| Permalink | More Info
Commonspot Session Timeout

The timeout for inactive sessions has been extended to 30 minutes. After a half-hour of inactivity, you'll be logged out of Commonspot.

Dec. 10, 2008| Permalink
Commonspot Contributor Guide

The Commonspot Help page on the Web Publishing site includes a link to the full documentation for Commonspot provided by Paperthin. This comprehensive document describes the delivered functionality in Commonspot version 4.6 - it won't document custom elements within our installation, such as the blog, survey manager, event calendar, or phonebook elements, but does cover the basic functions of the content management system. You'll need to login to Commonspot to view this PDF.

Dec. 10, 2008| Permalink | More Info