WFS will be down starting at 7 am this Saturday, January 11, 2014, for about 10-12 hours to allow for an upgrade to the Oracle environment.

Cascade automatically saves versions of the pages of your site. Each time you make an edit to a page and save, Cascade will store both the new page and the old one as separate versions. If you make an edit to your page and realize it’s not what you wanted, you can return to a previous version of the page. You can also compare an older version of a page to the current one.

1. To access the versions of a page, first locate the page in the Cascade navigation. Hovering over the filename will reveal a drop-down arrow, as shown here.   Click on the arrow to show a list of options.
2. From the list of options that appears, click on the Versions option.
   
3. This will bring you to a page that lists the previous versions of the page. Remember that each time you make an edit to a page and save it, Cascade stores a new version of the page.
   
   * Note: You can also access this list by selecting the page in the Cascade navigation, clicking on the More tab, and selecting Versions from the drop-down list that appears as shown below.
   
4. Clicking on any version in the list will open a preview of that version. You will see a notification that you are viewing a version, followed by some options.You can click on the Newer or Older links to see previews of the next newest or the next oldest version of the page. Clicking on the Current link will return you to a preview of the current page.
5. Clicking on the Compare with Current link will show you the differences between the version you’re viewing and the current page.
6. If you want to restore an older version of a page, click on the Activate link.

Using versions can be a useful tool in Cascade. To make versions even more productive, you can add comments when you edit a page to keep track of the changes you make. To do this, simply add a description in the text box titled Version Comments when you’re editing a page.

Your comments will appear when viewing the list of versions, as shown below.

Deleting old files in Cascade is easy. You can delete pages, images, pdfs, or entire folders that you no longer use on your site. If you no longer use a file, it is best to delete it so that your site remains neat and uncluttered.

1. Locate the page, image or folder you want to delete in the navigation to the left.

2. Rolling over the filename with your cursor will reveal a dropdown arrow.

Click on the arrow () to show a list of options.

3. From the menu, click on Delete as shown below.

4. On the resulting page, select the box labeled “Un-publish Content” and make sure that the file is deleted from both destinations by checking the ITS PROD and ITS Staging boxes.

5. Click submit.

6. You will see a notification stating that your delete was successful.

Note that you can delete images, pdfs or folders by following these steps. You can also delete a file by clicking on the filename in the Cascade navigation, and then clicking on More tab as shown below.

Click on Delete from the menu that appears.

Check the appropriate boxes on the resulting page, and click Submit.

You will see a notification stating that your delete was successful.

Here is documentation on how to add a new video or photo to your media page.

• On your videos page, select “Edit” from the tabbed menu on the page.
• In the edit page, under the heading “Photos and Video » Item”, select the “+” button to add a new video.
  
• With this new item added, you can begin to add the necessary information:
  
• Thumbnail: Here, you need to add a thumbnail you should have created for this video or image. This thumbnail should be 160px in width, and 88px in height.
• Title: Give your video or photo a title/name.
• Youtube Url: If this is a video, you can paste the url of the Youtube video here. Note: This video must be the shortened url and not the longer, normal version.
• Photo: If this is a photo, you may select the photo you wish to display here. This photo should be 550px in width and 330px in height.
• Photo Caption: You may place a caption for your photo or video here.
• At any point you do not recall some of these specific instructions, you may hover over the “?” button and find the size of the thumbnail, photo, or url requirements.
• When you’ve added all this, be sure to “Submit” these changes to your page.

After you’ve set everything up, this is what it should look like and how it should work:

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• Videos from Youtube will have a icon on the bottom right corner indicating that it is a video, with the icon being a “play” button.
• Whether it is a photo or video, I can select to view the media by clicking either the photo or the link below it.
• Once you click open one of the photos or videos, a window should appear on your screen like this:
  
• After you view the content, you can hit your keyboard’s Esc key or click close on the upper right hand corner.

Replacing/Updating a PDF

You can upload a new PDF to replace or update a PDF you have previously uploaded to Cascade.

In order to do this you need to:

• Select the PDF you want to replace in Cascade

• Click on the EDIT tab.

• Just as before, there are two ways to upload the new PDF.
  1. Click on Choose File and browse for the PDF, or
  2. Drag and drop the PDF from your computer into the field.

NOTE: You do not need to change the name of the file on your computer or on Cascade, the new PDF will take the name of the old PDF you are replacing that is already on Cascade. You can also do this to replace existing images or word documents.

Earlier in November, ITS sent an announcement regarding the spread of Trojan virus called CryptoLocker affecting Windows machines. If you are using a Macs or Linux machines, your computer is not affected and the information below does not apply to you.

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The Women of Wesleyan Conference was a recent university event hosted at Wesleyan University on October 12, 2013. Both the ITS-sponsored STEM conference, and WOW panel discussions were video recorded. To view the panels from these conferences, select a video from the player below.

Wired ResNet is functioning. WesGuest wireless will not be available until Tuesday morning, Nov 19.

For advanced users only, you may now use protect codes in the HTML dialog of Cascade’s page editor to ensure that code, such as javascript or other object codes, won’t be eaten by Cascade and ensure that your content will render.

• Open up the page in Cascade you wish to install the protect code, and hit “Edit”.
• In the edit page, you need to then select the HTML editor button.
  
  
• An HTML Source Editor, like the following, should appear:
  
• In this HTML editor, you may paste the protect code, as follows:
  <!–#protectYour code here

  #protect–>

• Between the protect lines, you may insert the code which you want on this page.
  • if you are inserting a BrightCove video you can get the code from the person who created your video
• Make sure you hit “Update”, and the source editor will minimize.
• You may now continue to update the rest of your page–make sure you hit Submit when you’re done!