28 Sep 06 CMS Updates – September 2006

The CMS implementation was delayed for a time this month while Duo Consulting worked on a problem with left-hand navigation display in Collage. The current site and sections/divisions currently have a multi-level left navigation structure that expands based on the active page. This had to be recreated within Collage’s framework. Within Collage, users can manage left navigation through site structures which are independent from the template. However, Collage’s base functionality supports only a three level navigation. Due to this, Duo had to develop a method to support the current site functionality which includes over three levels, while making sure that users could take advantage of the Collage site structure functionality allowing for simplified control/maintenance of the left navigation.

More delay-causing problems were experienced after the new switching equipment was installed. However, by the time of this writing, we know that the switching problems have been corrected, and we believe the navigation problem has been solved. Duo has completed a penultimate conversion of AL Online data, and has done a preliminary conversion of ACRL/Choice content. We will re-evaluate the conversion timeline once these two sections have gone live.