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Sitecore is the University, Faculty, and department platform. Our ALES research websites will not be impacted.
The University of Alberta official CMS Migration Updates site.
Current News
You can edit your own listing in the University of Alberta Directory – Professor Pages and People Pages
Recently, as part of the University’s plan to migrate out of the existing Sitecore web content management system into the new Cascade system, University Relations – Digital and IST have migrated your People Pages (formerly Professor Pages) to the new IST Directory service.
IST has built a system whereby you can update your own pages without having to submit a web update request etc. Here’re the relevant links:
- On May 6, the U of A will be launching a revised version of the Find a Person directory that will now contain the Professor Page functionality that was available in Sitecore.
- People Pages (formerly Professor Pages) << Use this to edit your Page
Since this is a new system, some documentation isn’t complete yet, and as we’ve found, some previously-used features were not included. If you have questions or concerns, or something isn’t working as expected, feel free to contact us and we’ll look into it.
Recent Posts
You can edit your own listing in the University of Alberta Directory – Professor Pages and People Pages
Recently, as part of the University’s plan to migrate out of the existing Sitecore web content management system into the new Cascade system, University Relations – Digital and IST have migrated your People Pages (formerly Professor Pages) to the new Read More ...Read More »Resources to edit and update your professor pages after they migrate to IST Directory
University Relations – Digital have released their update and documentation on the upcoming migration of Professor Pages away from Sitecore and into the IST Directory. These resources include: Support articles and how-to videos for updating information on your Professor/People page Read More ...Read More »Timeline for the transition of Sitecore Professor Page to IST Directory
Over the next week and a bit, University Relations – Digital and IST will transition the existing Professor Pages to IST Directory. Sunday, April 26th will be the last day for Edits within the Sitecore Professor Page Editor. After that Read More ...Read More »Cascade project update
The Cascade Project will continue to move forward under the current conditions: https://www.ualberta.ca/cascade-cms/news/2020/migrations-continue.htmlRead More »The transition of Sitecore Professor Page to IST Directory
Update Mar. 13, 2020 [from University Relations – Digital]: Good Day All, This is a notification that the Professor Page Update Session, scheduled for March 18th from 10:00 a.m. to 11:20 a.m., will be postponed to a later date and Read More ...Read More »Migration Update
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An update on pending training for senior website administrators, and a renewed focus on the 'mobile first' design philosophy that's part of the migration.Read More »Website migration update
The ALES digital team attended the info session this morning and is pleased with the progress the central team has done to date. We are optimistic about the plans we’ve seen to date and we are moving forward as anticipated. Read More ...Read More »Web cms migration status update – from central
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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 ...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 ...Read More »Next Steps for Migration
*Updated* Next Steps Training UR staff technical training (completed early April 2019) UR Migration training (completed May 1, 2019) Infrastructure Set-up Installation and configuration of CMS on the university’s cloud servers (completed May 2019) Institutional framework (HTML/CSS) updated for Cascade Read More ...Read More »