Category: All the Other Stuff

An update was released to our development environment on Tuesday, August 23rd, 2016 and will be released to production sites on Tuesday, August 30th, barring any security/emergency updates. The following updates have been applied:

Major Version Upgrade

• None

Drupal Core Bug Fix/Security Updates

• None

New Modules Added

• Metatag 7.x-1.17:
  • The information found at this Code Karate tutorial is a little dated, but it will get you started in the right direction. Please note that module configuration is an architect level activity.

Contributed Module Updates

• CTools 7.x-1.10:
  • This update has more than ten changes. Please refer to the version link above for more details.
  • Please note that this module is a suite of APIs that are not testable via the User Interface. Many of the modules within our OSU Drupal 7 distribution are dependent upon it for base functionality.
  • Many of the fixes in this update relate to CTools modal forms, which appear in the Views User Interface.
• Entity 7.x-1.7:
  • Views Row Plugin “Rendered Entity” adds reference to the view
  • EntityInterface added to allow programming interfaces
  • theme_entity_property() now respects “content” variable
  • Fixed error “Call to a member function label() on a non-object” in generated admin UI
  • Added a way to prevent exportable rebuild on cron run

OSU Module Updates

• None

OSU Theme Updates

• None

If you have questions or concerns please contact us though our contact form.

CWS has added the Simple Calendar plugin to blogs.oregonstate.edu.

This plugin allows for connecting Google Calendars to your blogs.

As a site administrator, you can turn the plugin from the Plugins menu. When activated, a new menu item appears on the left called ‘Calendars’

Here, you create templates which are then added to widgets or posts.

For example to display the event title and if present a location and description.


<div class="gce-list-event gce-tooltip-event">[event-title]</div>
[if-location]<div><span>Location:</span> [location]</div>[/if-location]
[if-description]<div><span>Description:</span> [description]</div>[/if-description]
<div class="gce-list-event gce-tooltip-event"></div>


Plugin documentation can be found at http://docs.simplecalendar.io/

The Drupal 7.39-cws-1.2.0 update was released to our development environment on Tuesday, October 13th, and will be released to production sites on Tuesday, October 20th.  This release includes:

Major Version Upgrade

• None

Drupal Core Bug Fix/Security Updates

• None

New Modules Added

• Access Control Bridge: 7.x-1.2
  • Added to improve the interplay between the different access control modules we use (Domain Access and Organic Groups).

Contributed Module Updates

• Colorbox: 7.x-2.9 -> 7.x-2.10
  • Less Critical Security fix to prevent users from adding unexpected content to a colorbox, including content from external sites, which could allow an unprivileged user to deface a site. Issue was mitigated by the fact that comments must be enabled (they are not used on our sites).
• Filefield Paths: 7.x-1.0-beta4 -> 7.x-1.0-rc1
  • Over 22 issues addressed in this move to a Release Candidate. Please see the release notes list for details.
• Pathauto: 7.x-1.2 -> 7.x-1.3
  • Over 37 issues addressed. Please see the release notes list for details.
• Views Field View: 7.x-1.1 -> 7.x-1.2
  • Fixed query aggregation for field api fields
  • Sorted list of views
  • Fixed strict warning only variables – should be passed by reference in options_form()
  • Added simple, static caching
• Webform: 7.x-4.10 -> 7.x-4.11
  • 15 issues/feature improvements added. Please see the release notes list for details.

OSU Module Updates

• Live Feeds: Added Google Calendar Feed into module
• OSU Search: Removed unnecessary argument from query string for Google Site Search

OSU Theme Updates

• Doug Fir: Added improved styling for Views Accordian menu

Request for Feedback

• Feature Page: As mentioned in our Drupal Community Meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 13th, any users who are interested in testing out the Feature Page in a dev environment, please put in a request via the contact form below.

If you have questions or concerns please contact us though our contact form.

We have added the WP Latex plugin to blogs!

LaTex is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents.

To setup using LaTex and to review how to use it, go to your blogs dashboard.

There under Settings, you will see ‘WP LaTex’. Click it.

Select ‘wordpress.com’ as the LaTex server.

For text and background colors, you fill in Default text color and Default background color with 000000 and ffffff for black text on white background. Use ffffff and 000000 for white text on black background.

Click ‘Update LaTex options’ to start using LaTex!

The Drupal 7.38-cws-1.3.0 update was released to our development environment on Tuesday, August 4th, and will be released to production sites on Tuesday, August 11th.  This release includes:

Major Version Upgrade

• None

Drupal Core Bug Fix/Security Updates

• None

Contributed Module Updates

• Display Suite (ds) – 7.x-2.10 -> 7.x-2.11
  • Fixed incorrect field info api documentation for ‘block fields’
  • Fixed block regions that could not be deleted following upgrade to 2.10
  • Fixed changed view mode on nodes from full content to default on page
  • Fixed typo in recent commit for Token support in 7.x-2.x branch
  • Fixed error Undefined property: DatabaseConnection_mysql::$sid in node_ds_search_execute() (line 488 of ds_search.module)
  • Fixed inability to overwrite theme_ds_field_expert
• File entity – 7.x-2.0-beta1 -> 7.x-2.0-beta2
  • 36 issues addressed, for full list, please see https://www.drupal.org/node/2533090
• Honeypot – 7.x-1.18 -> 7.x-1.19
  • New features added
    • Added ability to sign timestamp values
    • Added user warning if certain common field names are used as Honeypot element name
  • Bugs fixed
    • Removed .gitignore
    • Fixed Honeypot 7004 failure if module is disabled
    • Fixed honeypot_expire check when counting honeypot_users
    • Fixed validation regarding whether honeypot.css exists or is consistent with variable ‘honeypot_element_name’
• Media – 7.x-2.0-alpha4 -> 7.x-2.0-beta1 – It’s now reached beta!
  • 47 issues addressed, for full list, please see https://www.drupal.org/node/2533084
• Webform – 7.x-4.9 -> 7.x-4.10
  • Fixed drush component option description and allows for using form keys in component option.
  • Fixed validation for Conditionally set values.
  • Added missing includes when loading submission, with entitycache installed (revised)
  • Fixed Conditional Set function that sometimes sets only first letter.
  • Added missing includes when loading submission, with entitycache installed.
  • Fixed duplicate ID for file field.
  • Fixed Webform Conditionals that were not showing on preview or results when testing select component with “is or is after” or “after” with numeric key.
  • Fixed hook_webform_submission_create function name in webform.api.php.
  • Fixed conditional on select with no value matches is and is-after.
  • Fixed static caching in webform_node_types.
  • Fixed Views Field Handlers permission for results link.
  • Added ability to use submission tokens in markup components.
  • Added Views Field Handler check if content type is Webform enabled.
  • Added data-label attribute to grid component option td elements.
  • Fixed the component of type Number that could not be “set to”
  • Added ability to disable Webform email recipients.
  • Added set webform_node_types_primary variable if webform content type is skipped on install
  • Fixed typo “much” log out

OSU Module Updates

• File entity: Removed repeating “Download” text in front of file entity files
• Drupal config: Enabled context_list and context_list_active by default for all Drupal sites
• OSU media: Updated thumbnail sizes for videos
• OSU Groups: Fixed a previous update to prevent errors in adding fields
• OSU migrate: Updated the bootstrap level when cleaning up migrations
• OSU search: When searching within a group, “Search this site” remains a selectable option
• Video carousel: Updating the video display image to be a teaser image

If you have questions or concerns please contact us though our contact form.

The Drupal 7.38-cws-1.2.0 update was released to our development environment on Tuesday, July 21st, and will be released to production sites on Tuesday, July 28th.  This release includes:

Major Version Upgrade

• None

Drupal Core Bug Fix/Security Updates

• None

Contributed Module Updates

• colorbox 7.x-2.9:
  • Tokens made available to colorbox and custom gallery based on nid fixed
  • Fixed empty popup in views trigger
  • Updated dependency version check
  • Fixed Uncaught TypeError
  • Corrected documentation that refers to the wrong link attribute
  • Custom Colorbox gallery token replacement
• context_list_active 7.x-1.0:
  • Improved code to bring it better in line with Drupal coding standards
  • Integrated with admin_menu more reliably
  • Fixed Uncaught Reference Error: JQuery is not defined error
• faq 7.x-1.0:
  • First public stable release
• features 7.x-2.6:
  • Fixed object property sorting issue
• feeds 7.x-2.0-alpha9:
  • 107 issues addressed – to see them all, please go to: https://www.drupal.org/node/2531428
• menu_block 7.x-2.7:
  • Fixed PHP notices with menu block configurations that do not have the new “depth_relative” value defined yet
• redirect 7.x-1.0-rc3:
  • Fixed errant logic for watchdog message logic about being unable to purge unused redirects
  • Fixed update hook 7100 to include a registry rebuild/entity info cache clear
  • Now uses isset() instead of property_exists()
  • Fixed redirect_fetch_rids_by_path() to fail gracefully if the redirect.status column does not exist yet
  • Avoid watchdog message about being unable to remove unused redirects, if the redirect purge variable is disabled

OSU Module Updates

• OSU Groups:
  • Fixed bug so that redundant URL paths will not be generated

If you have questions or concerns please contact us though our contact form.