Fall 2021 CFAES Drupal Update

As you probably have noticed the theme update was successfully launched on Tuesday evening.  This update touched all of our 300 Drupal 7 websites and modified more than 30 individual modules.  As with any updates of this size there are some bugs and oversights.  We have been working on fixing any known issues, please if you have any other issues to report email the IT Help Desk and refer to issue RITM1682815.

There are a couple things you may still need to do:

• Update your Give Now Link
• The Homepage Slideshow is being replaced with the new Hero Image Module.
• Look over your menu and make adjustments as needed.

Previously websites would add a Give Now link to their main menu and it would be styled as a button.  We moved the Give Now links out of the menu and created a module allowing users to edit the ribbon link at the top of the template.  Our intention was to move the existing Give Now links to that location.  However, an issue in the installation did not move these links and instead made all the links the default link, which is the college general fund.

These links were deleted in the update and we do not have them to automatically replace them.  If you had a specific fund or page on your site for this link to go to you will need to add it.  When logged in under Structure you will now find a "Give link" option.  This page will allow you to update the link.

If you need help accomplishing this contact us through the IT Helpdesk and we are more than happy to help get this updated for you.

We will be retiring the existing homepage slideshow, it will be replaced with our new “Hero Image” module that looks an operates similar to the image on the front of osu.edu.  All sites that have the slideshow currently now have the Hero Image module installed.  However, the slideshow will still be on your homepage to allow you time to make “slides” for the new module.  These slides (Hero Image content type) have different specifications and can be found in the documentation here: (https://training.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/sites/cttraining/files/imce/documentation/HeroImage.pdf)

Once you have created a hero image to replace your slideshow put in a Web Request at https://communications.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/website-request and we will remove the slideshow on your website, making the hero image appear on the homepage.

The slideshow will be removed from all websites Jan 3, 2022.  If you have not created hero images by that deadline, that area of your site will appear empty.

Accessibility and style changes to the menu alter the amount of room the menu takes up.  As before you should not allow your menu to take up more tabs that can fit on one row of the menu.  If you have a second row of tabs you will need to alter your existing tabs and possibly even combine tabs to fit your top level menu in.