I wanted to share an update on the University Relations digital team’s progress on migrating from Sitecore to Cascade. For the last three months we’ve been working on two major pieces of the project: Rebuilding the framework. This activity involves Read More …
Category: Sitecore Migration
New Site Search for ualberta.ca
The Digital Team in University Relations would like to announce a significant change to our site search. On Monday afternoon, we’ll be conducting a beta release of a new search product called Coveo. After the update, when you search U Read More …
Website Migration Update — University Brand and Communications
The following email describing current status and next steps for the Sitecore-to-Cascade migration of the ALES website. Hello everyone, I wanted to share an update on the University Relations digital team’s progress on migrating from Sitecore to Cascade. For the Read More …
Removal of Sitecore Accordion lists
As part of the content migration to Cascade from Sitecore, we are converting all the accordion lists to simple bullet lists. Once we complete the transition to Cascade, we’ll review how best to implement this content. Questions, comments, feedback? Contact Read More …
ALES Events System Has Launched
Earlier this week we migrated current and pending events to the new ALES Events System — which includes a new Events Submission Form and Display Systems. This update moves us away from the legacy Sitecore Events Manager and offers us Read More …
New events system coming soon
As part of the migration process and to continue to offer a similar service for ALES events, the ALES digital team has built a new events system. This system will be deployed and tested this summer prior to the migration Read More …
Migration Plan and Next Steps
Migration Plan Migration of all Sitecore websites must be completed before the existing Sitecore license expires in December 2020. To meet that deadline the following actions will be taken. Site migration will be like for like. This means that the Read More …
Migration to Cascade from Sitecore
Last week ALES Digital participated in an information session overviewing some details about the migration from Sitecore to Cascade CMS. Modules that have linkages to external processes will have to be manually integrated into Cascade. Simple, static content pages will Read More …
New CMS Selected
Earlier today (Apr. 3, 2019), the University Relations – Digital released the following statement: We are pleased to announce that the University of Alberta’s CMS RFP has been awarded to Hannon Hill (Cascade CMS). Both of our shortlisted candidates, Cascade Read More …
Pre-migration content adjustment and alignment.
Prior to content being migrated to the new CMS, the ALES Digital Team will be performing technical and template refinement and adjustments. In some cases, content will be moved to a different location to accommodate migration considerations. If you have Read More …