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UAS Content Management System (CMS)

The  content management system (CMS) application named Cascade Server, empowers UAS departments to update their web pages with a user-friendly interface that is available through any current Web browser (Firefox is recommended). These pages and tutorials will help you get started and familiar with the features of this new system.

If you are new, read all the pages in the Basics folder first. Then work you way through the Tasks as needed. You can always print out a page by clicking the printer icon on the left side of the grey bar above the content area of the page.

Cascade Server operates on a "Test Server." This means that you can work on pages in your site and then publish them out to the "Live" Server when they are ready. It creates a collaborative environment for your web development team to work on documents in one place and publish them in a variety of formats for web or print.

To log in at: http://cms.uas.alaska.edu:8080/cms/login.act

New Features from upgrade:

Parallel Publishing

A major enhancement in 6.8 is Parallel Publishing.  Previous versions of Cascade Server had a single publish queue across the entire system allowing only one active job at a time. As of 6.8, each Site now has it's own publish queue, and can publish up to two Assets at a time.

Parallel Publishing

Native Image Editing Tool

Cascade Server 6.8 introduces a built-in, inline image editing tool.  This image editor allows users to modify images when creating or editing them without the use of any client-side plugins or applets. The tool supports the following operations: Resize (optionally maintaining the aspect ratio), Rotate, Flip (horizontal/vertical), Crop, Undo, and Redo.

The tool is enabled for the following file extensions by default:

  • .jpg
  • .jpeg
  • .png
  • .bmp
  • .gif*

Image Editor


Rendering Metrics

Ever wonder why some Pages take a long time to render?  With Rendering Metrics, you can easily identify what Blocks and Formats are causing a page to take a long time to load.  When viewing a Page in Cascade, a new "Metrics" button is available that when clicked will display a menu containing all regions for the current Page and rendering times for each.

Rendering Metrics


Context Menu

A new context menu has been added that appears when hovering over asset links in Cascade.  The functionality provided by this menu is akin to functionality provided by the Cascade Server Extension for Firefox.  Users are presented with links to specific asset tabs for faster navigation.

Context Menu

 

For more information about the Cascade Server version update go to http://www.hannonhill.com/kb/Release-Notes/6.8/index.html