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History

The lists below do not contain all of the upgrades or bug fixes that have been committed to Brightspot. They are a selected list of changes that may have added or updated functionality for site editors.

2022

December

  • Add new site templates: college home page and less official sites (branding levels 2, 3, and 4)

August

  • Mailchimp newsletter archive
  • Audio module

July

  • MyBYU calendar updates
  • MyBYU module updates

February

  • Add the ability to download all files for form submissions

2021

November

  • Improve article importer to handle images better
  • Add tag importer
  • Allow container modules and sidebar calendar to appear in tabs

September

  • Update users and roles to improve user management
  • Migrate site categories to business entities (site groups)

August

  • Improve Page Speed
  • Add Basic Rich Text Capabilities to Block Quote

July

  • Improve Accessibility for Dropdowns and Accordion lists
  • Directory Search Content Type - Add Vertical Image Promo

June

  • Add all departments setting for employee ingestion
  • Allow ingesting an employee by NetID
  • Allow separate employee ingestion settings for the same department with different classifications
  • Update Audiences Site Functionality
  • Support Graduate Faculty Requirements
  • Allow Programs to be Taggable

May

  • Create dynamic list of programs/courses based on departments

April

  • Leaflet Map Integration
  • Form File Upload Should Support PDFs

March

  • Faculty Profile API: Pull CV as Brightspot attachment
  • MyBYU: Let Leave Time Show in Container Module
  • MyBYU: Prevent Leave Balance Data from Breaking onto 2 lines when used in a container module

February

  • Add video support to digital signage
  • Improve anchor linking within RTE
  • Vertical List: Add ability to use promo description instead of default person fields

January

  • Create bulk uploader for athlete and coach content types

2020

December

  • Create Directory Search Module

November

  • Create Experiential Opportunity Content Type

October

  • Lightbox capability for images/galleries in RTE
  • Move Privacy Policy field to Sites & Settings
  • Allow setting aside list to right side instead of left
  • Add ability to select image crop option on list content small

September

  • Add Alphabetical (A-Z) sort option for site search results
  • Allow setting employee group on employee ingestion
  • Make mobile menu close when tab focus moves out of it
  • Add aria-label and tabindex to buttons in promos
  • Make text stand out more in Promo Full Width and Full Width Large
  • Support raw HTML in tabs modules
  • Upgrade to Brightspot 4.2
  • Add Global Privacy Policy Field
  • Add reply-to button for email action
  • Allow setting site-level default for vertical person photo
  • Allow randomizing the first slide in a carousel

August

  • Show first name instead of netID when logged in
  • Dynamic Lists: Add Event Chronological Order Sort
  • Make all images that act as links have the link title as alt text rather than the image description as alt text

July

  • Create digital signage module
  • Allow Setting a Site Search at the Section Level
  • Add employee page variation with vertical photo

June

  • Update H1 heading sizes at tablet/mobile breakpoints
  • Promo Card Background: Make whole image clickable
  • Create Small Content Promo List that Supports a Circular Image
  • Add Update Date Field to Article CSV Importer
  • Add Athletic fields to Events
  • Create Schedule List Module
  • Create Upcoming Athletic Event List Style
  • Send email response to user after they fill out a form

May

  • Prevent nav item from showing if the FE user does not have access
  • Import data from RSS Feed to external content item
  • Faculty profile API
  • Extramurals: create athlete content type
  • Extramurals: create coach content type
  • Show a confirmation on screen of what's been submitted in a form

April

  • Create Vertical Image List Style
  • Convert public-facing email addresses to forms
  • Improve Section Access Capabilities
  • Allow users to edit their own ingested directory page
  • SEO Description should fall back to Promo Description
  • Add a toggle to prevent aside from coming up into the lead of a page
  • Add SEO tools to pages and articles to mimic Yoast WP plugin
  • Add bulk article uploader

March

  • Build Academic Calendar Module
  • PhotoShelter Integration
  • BYU Button Style Updates
  • Add group capability for forms

February

  • Employee Ingestion: Archive Employees who no longer meet ingestion criteria
  • Add ability to customize urls of attachments
  • Open attachment in new tab instead of auto-downloading
  • Make content expirable

January

  • Pull in GraphQL plug-in
  • Enable creating dynamic lists based on article's employee author
  • Add pagination to all list styles
  • Copy with updates: confirm original is canonical
  • Create calendar page
  • Add submit as draft event capability for forms
  • Ability to select default employee fields that will display in employee list pages
  • Unpublished Drafts Widget: Sites Should be in alpha order
  • Create new event list style
  • Create calendar sidebar module
  • Create hierarchical tag

2019

December

  • Transparent header style
  • Pull in A/B testing module
  • Allow adding buttons in the lead
  • Employee Ingestion: remove deleted employees
  • Pull in breaking news module
  • Create sidebar list style

November

  • Create external content module
  • Create template for academic calendar module
  • Make image a publishable type (to enable workflows)
  • Support rich text modules within accordion lists

October

  • Ability to create events using feeds
  • Add calendar picker for events
  • Make Employee Groups a filterable field

September

  • Allow dynamic list sort by alphabetical order
  • Anchor/Jump Links
  • Allow section redirects from multiple subdomains
  • Create "Author Title" field on article
  • Events: Primary Category should only be required on Calendar site
  • Update the style of the small and medium content promos to align the text

August

  • Add calendar API
  • Option to show only future events on search results
  • Add sign in option in header
  • Allow admins to provision rights based on GRO group
  • Enable BYU CAS login
  • Change default time zone to MT
  • "Add to University Calendar" button on events
  • Create highlight list A
  • Allow event upload from CSV
  • Allow site search per section
  • Event tag and section pages should only show upcoming events
  • Add website field to employee pages
  • Add image field to events

July

  • Add default dark overlay to article lead image for text to display better
  • Footer columns stack instead of hide at small screen sizes
  • Option to hide section title from promos
  • Update event ticketing/pricing fields
  • Full-size image option (correct aspect ratio) in rich text fields
  • Expand controls for category admins
  • Option to hide "x min read" from articles for a site
  • Option to hide description for promos
  • Add alternate header for BYU home site
  • Add calendar date picker control for forms
  • Add ability to search across multiple sites
  • Improve configuration of limiting access at the section/page level
  • Allow CMS admin to give access to individual SAML users
  • SAML Username should be netID instead of personal email

June

  • Photo Download/Terms of Use Agreement
  • Ability to hide image caption
  • Tag consolidation for news site
  • Set default promo image
  • Separate photo download vs. gallery download
  • Add heading options to RTE
  • Galleries with only one image should be replaced with single image enhancements
  • Author pages should include other articles by the same author
  • Add Read More From links to article migration
  • Add mobile text field to Page Footer
  • Create Read More From list style
  • Photo image padding
  • Pagination on lists
  • Allow aside modules on homepage/section/pages
  • Add Google Captcha for forms
  • Add vertical centered image size option
  • Add option to hide publish date from articles
  • Add "Hide Default Promo Image" option to lists
  • Create Promo Full Width Large

May

  • Associate SAML Groups (GRO groups) to Tool Roles
  • Add button ability to rich text modules
  • Add title field for rich text modules
  • Create new media contact field on article pages