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The official repository City of Boston public website, boston.gov.

tags/2024-02-06

4 months ago

Release Notes

Digital DIG-3979 Blue text not appearing on white background in components

  • This work fixes a bug where the text in the “3-column w/ image” and “formatted text” components was showing as blue against the blue background instead of white and thus the text seemed to be missing
  • When using these components with the blue background the text will always show as white

Metrolist DIG-3715 Update drupal logic to use new "Web Page Status" field to display project pages on map

  • This work enhances development that was done previously to handle the management of how housing projects are displayed on maps on Boston.gov. This updates the logic to use the 'Web Page Status' field to determine what projects appear on the housing map based on the status used for a project.

DIG-3715 Update drupal logic to use new "Web Page Status" field to display project pages on map DIG-3979 Blue text not appearing on white background in components

Acquia tags

tags/2024-01-06

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CityOfBoston/boston.gov-d8/compare/tags/2024-01-26...tags/2024-02-06

tags/2024-01-26

5 months ago

Release Notes

Digital DIG-3890 - Add option to events to "Select all" of a specific "place" type in "related content"

  • This work is related to ticket DIG-3026 which was deployed last week
  • This work adds the option for the user to "Select All" for place profiles to the 'Events' content type

DIG-3893 - Adjust permissions to allow content authors to edit "page metadata"

  • This work gives content authors the ability to adjust the “updated date” and the “published date” in the “page metadata” for all of Drupal’s content types
  • The new permissions mirror what a “content editor” is able to adjust in the same field

DIG-3947 - Select all "place type" option in "related content" preventing items from appearing in news component

  • This work fixes a bug where posts were not appearing in the news component if the content author selected more than one "place type" to link to their post

DIG-3949 - Users prevented from adding more than four posts to "news and announcements" component

  • This work fixes a bug where users were prevented from adding more than four items to display (default number) in the advanced options of the News and Announcements component
  • If the user added more than four Items to Display the page still only showed four posts

DIG-3951 - Drupal Maintenance

  • This is regular Drupal Maintenance work

Metrolist DIG-3829 - ML: Listing email problems

  • This work allows the user to click the email agent button on Metrolist housing pages to enable the Contact Us form for sending emails to the listed agent's email address for additional property information

DIG-3951 - Drupal Maintenance DIG-3949 - Users prevented from adding more than four posts to "news and announcements" component DIG-3947 - Select all "place type" option in "related content" preventing items from appearing in news component DIG-3893 - Adjust permissions to allow content authors to edit "page metadata" DIG-3890 - Add option to events to "Select all" of a specific "place" type in "related content" DIG-3829 - ML: Listing email problems DIG-3026 Add option to posts to "Select all" of a specific "place" type in "related content"

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tags/2024-01-26

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CityOfBoston/boston.gov-d8/compare/tags/2024-01-22...tags/2024-01-26

tags/2024-01-22

5 months ago

Release Notes

DIG-3026 Related LInks

  • This work gives content authors the ability to add related content to multiple pages at once with one click of a profile type checkbox. This eleviates the pain point of having to do mulitple searches to add related content to numerous related pages

DIG-3888 Drupal Maintenance

  • This work is regular Drupal Maintenance

DIG-3026 Related LInks DIG-3888 Drupal Maintenance

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tags/2024-01-22

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CityOfBoston/boston.gov-d8/compare/tags/2023-11-28...tags/2024-01-22

tags/2024-01-11

5 months ago

ModState Log Update, MNL Update, Drupal Maintenance

Digital

Release Notes

DIG-3309 Moderation sidebar text area required,

  • This work updates the Submit for Review process for content editors. When a content editor clicks the Submit For Review button it will require them to add a "log message" describing what they updated or changed on the page for the content reviewer.
  • If the editor tries to submit without a log message they should be prevented from doing so and see a temporary message in the log message field in red text that says, “Please provide a revision log message.”
  • The log message field will also display a red bar outline around the field.

DIG-3820 Reset My Neighborhood Lookup to reflect updated City Council information

  • This work reverts the My Neighborhood look up pages to reflect updated City Council information as a result of the 2023 election results.
  • The user should also see updated polling information for their district.

DIG-3834 Drupal Maintenance

  • This is regular Drupal Maintenance

DIG-3820 Reset My Neighborhood Lookup to reflect updated City Council information DIG-3309 Moderation sidebar textarea required, DIG-3834 Drupal Maintenance

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tags/2024-01-11

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CityOfBoston/boston.gov-d8/compare/tags/2023-11-28...tags/2024-01-11

tags/2023-11-28

5 months ago

Rollcall, MOH and add local updates

Release Notes

Digital

DIG-3308 Add back default message for canceled events

  • This work adds back the following default message for cancelled events, "Please contact the organizer", if a content author checks the cancel event box for an event but does not add a message

DIG-3517 Build roll call content type and input forms

  • This work starts building content and component types for a public-facing website to display City Council roll call voting data which is currently found on the old cityofboston.gov site, the new site will include Boston.gov branding guidelines and components. The ticket includes the following:
  1. Creating a roll call content type
  2. Creating City-Clerk input screen for rollcall vote component
  3. Migrating data from cityofboston.gov

DIG-3651 Review pdfs for FY2024 update

  • This work updates the abatement and exemption applications for FY2024 Assessing Online so they are downloadable from the Assessing Online City of Boston site for constituents

DIG-3707 Add to Cal dropdown menu fix

  • This fixes a bug where the Add to Calendar button for Events on Boston.gov was not working. When users clicked the button to add the event to their calendar there was no response
  • This was fixed with a patch to the javascript file so the "addtocal" button works as expected

DIG-3701 The word "off" appearing in resuable paragraph footers

  • This fixes a bug where the word "Off" was appearing above the reusable footers on the BPHC and Mayor’s Office of Housing pages

Metrolist

DIG-1055 BH: Display management of inactive project pages

  • This work improves the user experience with Boston Housing pages, this work includes but is not limited to:
  1. Removing inactive project pages from the Drupal site map to reduce likelihood that these projects can be found using search engines
  2. Preventing inadvertent creation of new project pages
  3. Clearly labeling inactive Boston Housing projects as such
  4. Deleting Boston Housing project pages that have been cancelled
  5. Various Boston Housing web page management improvements including manual and automated controls

DIG-1055 BH: Display management of inactive project pages DIG-3517 Build roll call content type and input forms DIG-3651 Review pdfs for FY2024 update DIG-3707 Add to Cal dropdown menu fix DIG-3701 The word "off" appearing in resuable paragraph footers DIG-3308 Add back default message for canceled events

Acquia tags

tags/2023-12-28

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CityOfBoston/boston.gov-d8/compare/tags/2023-11-03...tags/2023-11-28

tags/2023-11-30

6 months ago

Drupal Maintenance, MOH fix and slack updates

Release Notes

Digital DIG-3683 Drupal Maintenance

  • This is regular maintenance work for Drupal upkeep

Metrolist DIG-3674 Metrolist listing form not being emailed to users.

  • This work fixed a bug where the Metrolist listing form was not being received by users who requested it thus preventing property managers from listing new properties.

DIG-3683 Drupal Maintenance DIG-3674 Metrolist listing form not being emailed to users. non-ticketed slack updates

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tags/2023-11-30

tags/2023-11-03

7 months ago

UI and Maintenance Updates

Release Notes

Digital

DIG-2929 Add improvements to 'internal' links in components This work adds the following improvements to adding internal links to Drupal components:

  1. Content authors will see an error message if they add and save a relative path link to any "internal" link in a Drupal component and it fails to work.
  2. Removed the "content.boston.gov" at the start of the open field for an “internal” link search. It’s part of the reason content authors are getting confused and assuming the link will work. image
  3. Added this helper text for the user below "URL" and above the search field on Internal Link components -> “Search for the page you want to link to through the field below. If you don’t find the page through this search, use an external link instead to link to your content.”
  4. Removed the helper text below the search field. It doesn’t provide any useful information to the user and caused confusion.

DIG-2931 Add option to remove title for all components

  • This work gives content authors the ability to hide the title of any component if they choose to do so, similar to the "formatted text" component image

DIG-3014 Adjust location of sidebar / contact information on mobile and tablet layout

  • This work moves the location of the sidebar/contact information to the bottom of the screen on mobile and tablet layouts so users have a better experience engaging with Boston.gov sites on their mobile devices

DIG-3297 Translate Link LCA This work made the following updates to the translate link on Boston.gov:

  1. Changed the text from "Translate" to " English" in the top Nav Bar for the Google Translate tool
  2. Refreshes the title for the Google translate link so that every 3 seconds the language goes through our available options. When the user first loads the page, it will display “English” and then go through all of the language options through Google Translate, like "Español", "Francais", “简体中文”, etc.
  3. Add the Google translate icon to the left of the link for Google Translate in the top navbar

DIG-3483 Topic nav links invisibility fix

  • This work fixes a bug where a navigation title in the page sections is appearing in white text over a white background on a screen minimized to a mobile size

DIG-3359 Drupal Maintenance

  • This is regular Drupal maintenance work

Acquia tags

tags/2023-11-03

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CityOfBoston/boston.gov-d8/compare/tags/2023-10-05...tags/2023-11-03

tags/2023-10-20a

8 months ago

Drupal Maintenance

Release Notes

DIG-3336: Drupal Maintenance

  • This work is our regular Drupal maintenance

DIG-3336: Drupal Maintenance

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tags/2023-10-20

tags/2023-10-05

8 months ago

Release Notes

[PM to complete]

Digital

DIG-2895 Stop SAML and SSO overwriting on each deploy

  • This work fixes an issue where credentials were being over written on each deploy causing a developer to have to apply the secrets after each deploy
  • Moving forward we will use a private repository where we will be able to commit secrets in config files with safety

DIG-3093 Add Content search to site-admins backend.

  • This work adds a search utility to the site-admins backend which extends the search to more fields and customize search locations

DIG-3198 Drupal Maintenance]

  • This work is our regular Drupal maintenance

Metrolist

DIG-3130 Metrolist: Update field label on Listing Form [MOH]

  • This work updated a field label on the Unit Details Screen of the MOH listing form from Income Based to Project-Based Voucher

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Acquia tags

tags/2023-10-05

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CityOfBoston/boston.gov-d8/compare/tags/2023-09-07...tags/2023-10-05

tags/2023-09-28

9 months ago

Metrolist Listing Updates, Maintenance and UI Padding

Release Notes

[PM to complete]

Digital

DIG-2815 Extra padding added to 'formatted text', ...

  • This work updates the "formatted text", “mini grid”, and "iframe" components to reduce the padding that was added after the Drupal 10 upgrade
  • These components should now line up with same width as other components when viewed on mobile or tablet screens

DIG-3047 Drupal Maintenance

  • This is regular Drupal maintenance

DIG-3093 Add content search to site-admins backend

  • This backend work uses an existing SQL database to make a utility to search for strings in various content fields in the Drupal site

Metrolist

DIG-1368 Add "Income Based Rent" field to Listing Form [MOH]

  • This work enhances the Metrolist Listing Form to improve usability and features
  • Usability enhancements include exposing additional unit level information for each unit, clarifying field labels, providing information about current listing status, and cleaning up form level bugs.
  • Feature enhancements include adding income based rent field, allowing users to list and delist units on Metrolist, improving backend logic for updating status based on user actions, adding field level validation logic and improving integration with Salesforce.

Acquia tags

tags/2023-09-28

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CityOfBoston/boston.gov-d8/compare/tags/2023-08-31...tags/2023-09-28