CM System 7.1.0 Release Notes Guide

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Contents

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1. Creating Contextual Help Text for Fields 2 1.1 Adding Contextual Help Text to a Field...... 2 1.2 Adding Contextual Help Text to a Shared Field...... 4 1.3 Contextual Help Text Display in the Content Editor...... 4

2. Defining Grouping of Fields 5 2.1 Adding Groups to Content Types…………………...... 5 2.2 Field Group Ordering...... 8 2.3 Special Fields…………………………...... 9

3. Supporting HTML5 Tags in Ephox EditLive 10 3.1 Configuring CM System Tidy...... 12 3.2 Configuring Ephox EditLive Tidy...... 12 3.3 Additional Resources……...... 13

4. Creating 508 Compliant (Accessible) Custom Controls 14 4.1 Section 508 Compliance...... 14 4.2 Creating Section 508 Compliant Custom Controls in CM System 7.1.0...... 14 4.3 Specific 508 compliance issues addressed in CM System 7.1.0………………………………15

5. Configuring the Ephox EditLive Control to be Accessible 17 5.1 Accessing Ephox EditLive Menu Bar with Keyboard Shortcuts…………………………….18 5.2 Additional Resources...... 19

6. Viewing Content Explorer in High-Contrast Settings 20

7. Setting Email Notifications for Ad-Hoc Users 23

8. Using the New Breadcrumb Velocity Code 24

9. Preventing Orphan Content Items 25 9.1 Purge All...... 25 9.2 Purge Navigation...... 26 9.3 Enabling “Purge All” and “Purge Navigation”...... 27 9.4 Navigation Consistency...... 28

10. Inline Template Configuration 29

Appendix A: JAWS Setup 30

CM System 7.1.0 Release Notes Guide 1

CM System 7.1.0 Release Notes Guide

This Guide provides implementation details for new features and bugs addressed within CM System 7.1.0. This guide should be read as a supplement to the CM System 7.1.0 Release Notes.

This guide assumes certain basic CM System knowledge provided in Percussion’s Developer Training course and can be reviewed by reading the following documentation on http://help.percussion.com/cmsystem/

• Rhythmyx Concepts Guide • Rhythmyx Implementation Guide • Rhythmyx Technical Reference Manual

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1. Creating Contextual Help Text for Fields

Contextual Help Text is used to describe the Content Editor’s field names and/or inform users of the type of information which should be populated in each field.

This version of Contextual Help Text allows developers to add a help text value to any field on any content type. A small icon will appear to the right of the field where the Help Text is available. A contributor can click on the icon, and a small Help Text bubble will appear with the designated text value.

1.1 Adding Contextual Help Text to a Field

1 Open the Content Type in the Workbench that requires Help Text.

Figure 1.1 Content Type Control Field in Workbench

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2 For each field that requires help text, click the ellipsis (…) button next to the field’s control value, below the Control column. The Control Properties box will pop up. Double-click in the cell under the Name column and select helptext, then type a literal string value in the Value column. Hit Enter to ensure the changes were saved. When changes have been confirmed, click OK and save the content type.

Figure 1.2 Content Properties Box for the Content Type Control Field

Note: Help Text parameters created on a content type are designed so that each Content Type has unique Help Text on each field.

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1.2 Adding Contextual Help Text to a Shared Field If Contextual Help Text is desired on a shared field and should be visible on all content types containing the field, the shared field XML file must be modified. To update the shared field Help Text: 1 Open the Content Design tab in Workbench. 2 Expand the Shared Fields folder. 3 Double-click to open the desired XML file containing shared fields.

Figure 1.3 Shared Field XML File in Workbench

4 Follow step (2) from Section 1.1. to configure the shared field’s Help Text. 5 Once the desired Help Text has been entered, restart the server for changes to propagate to all content types.

1.3 Contextual Help Text Display in the Content Editor Once Help Text has been added to the desired fields in Workbench, the Content Editor will display contextual help icons to the right of each of these fields. The icon consists of a question mark (?) within a circle. When users click this icon, a help overlay bubble will pop up to the right of the icon. The help text that was added is displayed.

Figure 1.4 Help Icon in the Content Editor Form

Figure 1.5 Help Text Display

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2. Defining Grouping of Fields

This feature enables developers to define Groups for a Content Type and associate its fields to those groups. Groups can be expanded/collapsed, and all groups are collapsed by default except for the first group. An example of the Field Group feature is represented by the following image:

Figure 2.1: Content Editor Form with Field Groupings

2.1 Adding Groups to Content Types In order to add Groups to a Content Type: 1 Open Workbench. 2 Select the desired Content Type. Open the Content Design tab > Expand the Content Types folder > Double-click the Content Type to which groups should be added. 3 Click the Groups button in the center column. See Figure 2.2.

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Figure 2.2: Groups Button in Workbench

4 The Group Names Editor box will appear. Double-click the first empty row in the table, and type the desired Group Name. Additional groups can be added by double-clicking on a new empty row. Once all the groups are added, click OK to save. If a group needs to be removed, click the desired group, and then click the X (Delete) button in the upper right-hand corner of the Group Names Editor window. Click OK to save Groups.

Figure 2.3: Group Names Editor

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5 View the Field and Field Sets section within the Content Type. 6 Double-click the space under the Group column next to the desired field. A dropdown will appear. Select the desired Group Name.

Figure 2.4: Groups Column for Content Types in Workbench

7 Save the Content Type in Workbench.

Figure 2.5: Content Type in Workbench with Field Grouping Associations

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2.2 Field Group Ordering

Fields that are not assigned to any Group will be associated to an ‘Unassociated’ group within the Content Editor. This group will precede all other groups and will be expanded by default upon opening the Content Editor.

Other Groups are ordered based on the fields’ ordering within the Field and Field Sets table in Workbench. For example, the Image below shows that the sys_title field has been associated with Group 2 and the displaytitle field has been associated with Group 1.

Figure 2.6: Workbench Content Type with Newly-Ordered Fields

Since the ‘sys_title’ field precedes ‘displaytitle’ in the Field and Field Sets table, Group 2 will precede Group 1 in the Content Editor.

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Figure 2.7: Content Editor with Field Groupings

2.3 Special Fields

Hidden Fields Hidden fields that have been assigned a Group Label will not be visible in the Content Editor. Groups consisting of all hidden fields will not be visible in the Content Editor.

Required Fields If a group contains at least one required field, an asterisk (*) will precede the Group Name in the Content Editor; no asterisk will be present if a Group contains no required fields.

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3. Supporting HTML5 Tags in Ephox EditLive

The Ephox EditLive rich-text editor available in CM System 7.1.0 can be configured to support several HTML5 tags through its Code view.

The following HTML5 tags and currently supported across multiple browsers:

HTML5 Tag Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Apple Safari

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