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Welcome to the CommonSpot Users Group Blog
We will try to keep you informed of new developments and matters of interest for users of CommonSpot here at ECU. At the same time, I hope that you will share your comments, and if you would like to...
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Custom Tab Bar modifications
We recently received a request to make a change to the Custom Tab Bar Element. If you don’t know what that is, it is a custom element that mimics the links and icons on the ECU home page. Up till...
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Tutorial Tuesday – Inaugural Edition – Remote Script
Every Tuesday, I will post a new tutorial that I hope will help you get more out of CommonSpot. Remote Script We have created a new Custom Element called Remote Script. The element lets you do two...
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Tuesday Tutorial: Google Search
The Google Search Custom Element lets you take advantage of the power of our Google Mini search appliance, the same index that we use on all our ECU pages, but limit the search to your desired subsite....
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New CommonSpot Templates
Overview Starting Monday, 25 October, we changed the base template that all CommonSpot pages are built from. The biggest aspect of this change is that all new pages will no longer use a table as the...
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CommonSpot Corner: Preview Mode
After yesterday’s Users Group meeting, I was chatting with a couple of the attendees, and a complaint came up that I bet many people have had. As everyone knows, when you are in author mode, the page...
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Previous Versions
The ability to view previous versions of a page and the associated chance to revert pages to those previous versions seems to be one of the lesser known and understood features of CommonSpot. Until...
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Linking to Google Maps
This slide show was first presented at the October 2010 CommonSpot Users’ Group meeting. Google maps linking View more presentations from Tony Miller
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Redirects: A Graceful Way to Retire Pages
Last week, the update project took me into the main website folder where I scrutinized about 100 pages. Here’s what I found: Most pages were fine and needed no updates Some were test pages or...
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Pasting in Chrome and Safari
As you may know, the new version of CommonSpot now supports authoring in Safari and Chrome. But pasting into a Text-block element in these browsers is a little different than what you are used to....
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Enable Common Spot copy/paste in Google Chrome
Chrome Users: if you want to use the copy/paste operation in Chrome to edit your commonspot pages, install the cs_paste_extension. Go to the Google Chrome Store...
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Adding a Calendar Widget to Common Spot
The University has begun rolling out a new calendaring application called Localist. The new application will replace all the current Common Spot calendar options. ITCS has worked to move all the...
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