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Frequently Asked Questions 

Get the answers to some of the most common questions about the university CMS. Don't see your question? Schedule an office hour session and get your questions answered virtually or send an email to it-help@cmu.edu. 

Interested in the CMS

No, when you use the CMS you are required to use the official university templates. Customizations to these templates including changes to the layout, styles, formatting, etc. are not permitted. For custom-built websites, please consider using AWPS. 

No, the CMS is offered for official university units only (academic or administrative departments, research groups, and labs). You may build a personal website using UserWeb or G Suite Sites.
No, the CMS is not offered for course work, but the university does offer other tools for this. Please contact the Eberly Center for services available to faculty.
Yes, the CMS Demo site showcases the features and functionality of a Cascade site and includes links to a variety of other sites using the CMS. For Drupal sites, you can reference of each template.
One-on-one CMS training is not available, however there is a wealth of how-to documentation and help resources available on this site.

Working in Cascade

There is no limit to the overall size of your CMS site, however there is a 200 MB size limit for individual files (e.g., PDFs, images). For larger files like a video, we recommend embedding media.
Deleted items are moved to the trash for 15 days before being permanently deleted and can be restored during this time period.
Each time a site-wide element is modified in the CMS, a full-site publish is required. For large sites, please perform the publish outside of regular business hours (before 9am or after 5pm, or on weekends).

Yes, website managers can be designated as various roles depending on the need. Within the Site Manager role, permissions may be restricted for editing and publishing. Editing can be restricted to select folders, and publishing can be disabled. 

By default, the Site Manager has full site publishing and editing capability for a site, but a site owner can request a group with a subset of these permissions. For instance, a group may want a site managament group with access to just one folder, but retain its ability to publish site content. This ability helps when applying a workflow that an owner wants to enforce. 

Cascade and Drupal have different role titles. If you have any questions about the differences between user roles, please email us at it-help@cmu.edu. 

Yes. If the page has already been saved you can revert the page to a previous version and start over.

One of the objectives of providing the university templates is to build consistency across university websites to strengthen the CMU brand. A key component of that is having a font that is easily readable, accessible and quick to load. For these reasons, Open Sans was selected to be used for web publishing (Note: to improve load time on mobile devices, the native defaults for the device are used).

What's more, not every computer has a wide variety of fonts installed natively. So, a font that you have on your computer may not display properly for someone else on theirs. Loading Open Sans guarantees that everyone will see the text displayed properly.

Visit the Marketing & Communications web standards page for more information about 好色先生TV's branding guidelines.


A content-heavy page may take a while to load in the CMS because it's being assembled on the spot, whereas a published page has already been assembled, so it is much quicker to load. Follow the tips below to help reduce load time of pages in the CMS.

  1. Make sure your page has 15 or fewer WYSIWYG areas. Note that WYSIWYGs can be found in Content, Sidebar, Grid, and Slideshow sections.
  2. If you're using a Bio Index page, feature 100 or fewer Bios on it. If you need to feature more than 100 Bios, consider splitting them into separate folders, grouped by category.
  3. Cascade CMS runs fastest with

Still having trouble? Email it-help@cmu.edu

Section and Grid IDs are used for anchor links which allow linking to a specific section on a page. For some elements, like a news grid on a News Index page, IDs are required to ensure full functionality. For most other elements, IDs are optional and can be left blank if not needed.

While building a page, you will likely assign IDs to the elements you know you will be creating a direct link to, however consider other websites that may want to link to specific sections of your pages. While you can assign IDs at any time, setting them up from the get-go is an efficient way to make the content on your pages easily linkable.

No, dynamically generated content using an external database is not possible to set up with a CMS site. All pages must be built and updated manually through the CMS with the exception of using third-party services to embed media.

Working in Drupal

You can find image specifications for all component types, including hero images, in this document.
If you're experiencing an issue as you work through your new Drupal site, please submit a request for assistance by using the  where you can ask questions and report issues to the University CMS team. You can also attend a virtual office hour hosted by the Web Strategy Team.
You're not able to edit an existing page's template once the page is created. For example, if you decide a page needs to be a tertiary template after creating it as a secondary template, you will need to delete the secondary template and restart the page by creating a tertiary template. We recommend familiarizing yourself with the and components within each template before you begin creating pages.
Your site must be live for redirects within Drupal to work. If you need help with another redirect issue, please content the Web Strategy team by using the .
When editing a page, click the button in the top right corner to show the sidebar panel. The meta tag description is located under the Meta Tag expandable.
When it comes to using the paragraph library, don't worry about issues caused by duplicate content unless the reusable content is over 600 words or the reusable content from the paragraph library is a majority of the intent of the page. So, if you're duplicating entire pages and relying on the paragraph library to put full pages of reusable content in multiple places on the website, that's not good. Otherwise, you should be good to go.
Yes, you must re-upload a PDF file to Drupal and use the new Drupal node to link within a page. To upload a file to Drupal, download the document as a PDF from Cascade. Then, in Drupal, navigate to Content > Media > Add Media > Document. From here, you can choose your file and make sure to click "Save." Once the new media item is saved in Drupal, you can go back to the page you're working on, highlight the text you need to link, and begin typing in the file name to find the node.
URLs can be generated automatically by where they are nested in the menu structure, or you can opt to designate a URL in the authoring screen of the edit page. You may also use a combination of these methods.
Users typically use the search function to find pages. Drupal also allows you to navigate through the site, like you can in Cascade, so you can navigate through the site that way to make edits. The search functionality is usually the easiest and fastest way to navigate and find pages. There is not a folder structure for purposes of filing content in Drupal.
For technical support, the UCM Web Strategy team would help to create the site structue and then train you. The Web Strategy team would also be able to handle any issues or feature requests moving forward. To initiate a conversation about moving to Drupal, please reach out to Lauren Pontzer, Director of Web Strategy. 
A form can be added to a page by using the "RFI Form" content type. This content type allows you to input a Title, an image if desired, and a description that would display on the left hand side. For the form itself, you have to paste in an embed code from an existing form that's built on another platform like Wufoo. Tip: If you have something like a Newsletter signup form, and you envision using it on multiple pages of your site, consider setting up the RFI Form as a reusable paragraph type. 

Managing Content

We don't recommend sites copying content from other sites. It. confuses website visitors and search engines, and is difficult to maintain consistency. If you're not the authoritative owner of the content, link to the appropriate source pages instead. If someone else has copied your content, reach out to the site owner, or email it-help@cmu.edu to find out who the site owner is, and request the content be taken down and a link to your site be provided instead.

If you're working in Cascade, password-protection can be set on your published website to allow access to individuals with Andrew IDs. There is no method available to restrict access to non-CMU affiliates. If you're working in Drupal, there is no way to password-protect pages at this time. 

Before password-protecting content, review ISO's Guidelines for Data Classification and ensure that you never include information classified as Restricted or Private on a CMS site. 

Please submit a request to it-help@cmu.edu for instructions on how to password-protect content.

 

While we don't provide broken link reports, you can check for broken links using a few different methods. For internal links, a link check is automatically done during publish. Once you publish a page, view notifications by clicking on your Profile in the upper right of the Main Toolbar then Notifications, OR on the Dashboard in the Notifications widget. If broken link(s) were found, it will display completed (1 issue(s)) in the subject line; select to view. Scroll to the Broken Links section to find the broken link(s). 

The CMS doesn't have the ability to check external links, however third-party tools are available for checking all links on your live site, including , Integrity, , , and . 

Any content that appears on your live site that has no corresponding counterpart in the CMS is called an orphan. An orphan is created when an item is moved, deleted or renamed in the CMS without being unpublished from the live site. 

You can remove an individual orphan manually if you know the URL of it on the website. However, to identify all orphans on your site you may . You'll be provided with a list of orphans, and with your approval we can delete all of the orphans from the live site in one shot. 

Yes, learn about the web analytics options available.

If you have a Cascade site and you're experiencing this issues, it's a result of using certain fields under the Metadata tab which are not fully functional. For instance, when the Keywords field is used, the data erroneously appears in the Description field. To avoid this, do not use the Summary, Teaser, Keywords and Author fields under the Metadata tab. Keywords in metadata have also largely been deprecated by search engines, placing more importance on the content of the page instead. 

Filling out the Title and Description fields in the Content tab, and ensuring your content is well-written, should be sufficient for search engine optimization. 

Mixed content means there is a combination of secure and non-secure items on the page. All CMS websites are served using a secure URL (i.e., HTTPS://) however there may be embedded content on the page using a non-secure URL (i.e., HTTP://) such as a YouTube video or mailto form. This is often easily corrected by modifying the URL of the embedded content to be secure.