Announcements

The blogs.oregonstate.edu installation was upgraded last evening.  This upgrade includes:

• Latest version of the core Wordpress MU code
• Latest version of the Sociable plugin
• Lifting the restriction on embed and object tags to allow video from any 3rd party source to be included in blog posts and pages

If you have any issues with this upgrade, please contact us.

The production Drupal 6 websites were updated to the latest version of Drupal 6 yesterday afternoon.

This release includes the following updates:

• Various layout and CSS fixes for the OSU Grey theme
• Latest versions for the following modules: Embedded Media Field, File Field, Image Field, IMCE, Pathauto, Site Map, Link, CCK, and Views
• Updating OSU Single Sign-On module to the latest version
• Adding code to support CWS hosted Urchin and University Advancement's Google Analytics instance to OSU Orange and OSU Grey

We are currently aware of the issue regarding secondary page titles using the OSU Grey theme and the short header.  We are working on resolving this... Read More

Select services have been restored to CWS web hosting. These services include ssh and sftp and write access for most applications like Drupal. Regular FTP access remains disabled.  If you need information on accessing your site via FTP, please visit the CWS Getting Access webpage.

For access from off-campus locations, please use the VPN client. Information on using a VPN connection can be found on the CWS Getting Access webpage or from Network Engineering.

Central Web Services web servers were subject to an attack this weekend.  Due to this,  a number of services have been temporarily disabled to CWS sites, including ssh and ftp access.  Personnel are currently working to clean up this incident.  Central Web Services hosts oregonstate.edu and many other sites in the oregonstate.edu domain.

For users accessing a web page, you may receive a message that states something similar to:  "Warning:  Visiting this site may harm your computer...site contains malware"
If you see this visiting oregonstate.edu (the Home Page), the calendar, or the campus map the issue is resolved.  If you see this message elsewhere, please Read More

We released an updated version of Drupal into the development environment on Thursday, October 22nd.

The update includes:

• Various theme fixes for OSU Orange, including
  • Images no longer have a default gray border
• Various theme fixes for OSU Grey, including
  • Corrected IE6 issue for custom view content width
• Latest version of the Emfield module
• Fix for a search problem when an image was used as the search button (existed in OSU Orange and some custom themes)
• Copyright and Disclaimer links on OSU Themes
• Various 508 accessibility fixes to OSU Themes

This update is scheduled to be released to production Drupal sites on... Read More

All of the development Drupal 5 and 6 websites have been updated to the latest version of OSU Drupal.  We will be pushing the changes to production websites on Wednesday (9/30/2009) evening.

This upgrade includes the following updates to Drupal 6:

• Upgrade to Drupal 6.14
• Fix Cache Router unlink issue
• Fix display issue with embedded videos and Nice Menus (for all newly added videos)
• Fix glossary links
• Upgrade TinyMCE to 3.2.7
• Upgraded Drupal Modules to the latest version - Date (2.4), Cache Router (1.0-rc1), EMField (1.4), and Site Map (1.1)
• Various CSS fixes for OSU Orange and OSU Grey 
  • This includes the much requested increase in font size for... Read More

CWS has launched our new website using OSU Drupal 6.  We plan to add additional information to our website in the coming weeks.

Central Web Services is pleased to announce the release of a new Drupal 6 class.  Starting in October, you can take Generating Custom Content Types. 

Come and see how to get everyone on the same page!   Discover how to create custom content types through the use of the Content Construction Kit (CCK) module.  Embed standard image sizes, develop a formulaic content base to help with layout consistency, and learn how to configure some advanced content type settings.

Please note that this is an advanced workshop that requires a personal Drupal training site which has been completed up to this level of instruction.  For more information contact CWS.  This workshop covers... Read More

Blogs.oregonstate.edu was upgraded to the latest version of WordPress MU on Monday, September 14th.  The public facing portion of your blog should not be impacted by this upgrade.

If you encounter any issues, please let us know by submitting a help ticket.