What we are actively working on
We’re actively refining the Calendar service and a few additional requests through the rest of the year. We are also making minor accessibility tweaks. Below are the enhancements currently in progress:
- Improved public event filtering — including user-selectable event types. Done
- Mobile view updates — streamlining all four primary calendar views for a better mobile experience. Done
- New favorites options — adding sponsor and location favorites to management screens.
- Widget review — evaluating existing widgets for clarity and consistency.
- New image-enabled widget — adding a fresh widget that supports event images.
- Updated XML Schema — releasing a new schema aligned with the latest needs for the Illinois App.
- Email+ PDF accessibility improvements — enhancing exported PDFs for accessibility compliance. Done
- Short URL addition - added a new short URL go.inhs.illinois.edu. Done
- Form and Survey - addition of a new Time validation rule. Done
- Massmail - modify the email alignment.
- Massmail - change non-tabular tables.
What is up next
These are the enhancement requests submitted by users. Feel free to reach out with additional suggestions via the Contact Us form.
- Annual Webtools audit — a comprehensive review of all Webtools applications.
- Blogs accessibility review — evaluating all blog widgets to ensure they meet accessibility standards.
- Group Manager expansion — adding a new group type that connects directly to campus listservs, enabling automatic use of listserv email addresses.
- Email+ future email design — developing a tableless layout option in preparation for the campus transition to the newest version of Outlook.
- Forms new date/time question type — this new question type will allow people to ask a single question for a date, a time, or both. It will also include advanced validation rules. Example: Valid date ranges are M-F from 8:00 am - 5:00 pm.