Release Notes: 2017 Q4

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Styling of text element

This is a new styling of text elements. It will give the element a white background, a coloured side bar, and a slightly smaller font. It can be useful to visually distinguish content.

In the element properties, under Appearance, select 'Wit met Zijlijn' and choose one of the TU Delft theme colours:

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Dynamic content overview - Card Layout

News and Agenda items are usually displayed in what is called a Dynamic Content Overview. The news / agenda feed on your page is one as well. There are several overview templates available, but there was great demand for a template that displayed the search results in a card layout. This has now been introduced, an example can be seen on the right.

Also, check out more Card Layout display options!

Styling is determined by the available content of the result pages, as well as custom settings in the overview element. All card variations (normal, half height, horizontal, and horizontal half height) are available to choose from, as well as the number of results per row.

Because the overviews are difficult to set up properly, changing from your current template to this new template is not done by editors. Please contact your local content manager to apply for this overview template.

Esengul Yildirim co-teach certificat

"I have gained more respect for teachers" The teacher shortage calls for smart solutions. Therefore, TU Delft and regional schools started the pilot " Co-Teach STEM ," where experts from the field team up with teachers to deliver STEM education. The goal is to help prepare students for their future. Last September, the first participants temporarily swapped their colleagues for a classroom of thirty students. They followed a program of six modules to gain knowledge about primary and secondary education, aiming to work as co-teachers. These modules are taught by didactics experts from the TU Delft teacher training program. The participants recently received their certificates.

Arnoud Greidanus in NL Roei

'Scientifically there is still much to be researched around rowing'

General schedule on the website discontinued

From Monday 22 July, the webpage displaying the general timetable will expire. The plugin that enabled this visual timetable is no longer available. Alternative options to find the information you are looking for: If you want to explore everything X has to offer, it's best to take a look at the A-Z Overview page for a complete overview. Do you already have an account for the X webshop and want to know specifically which ticket hours take place today, tomorrow or another day? Then take a look in our webshop . There, you can view the schedule in a list view, as well as in a timetable view. Please note that you can only enrol for a ticket hour if you have a valid X subscription. This change is related to a previously announced modification on the website: you can read more about this in the news item of 18 April 2024 .

Reimagining river cities: The University of São Paulo, TU Delft and Resilient Delta enter 5-year partnership

This April, the University of São Paulo and TU Delft launched a 5-year joint research project on river cities and ports, focusing on the intersections between climate action and health the urban environment The Tietê river makes its start in foothills immediate east of São Paulo, flowing through this expansive metropolis through a series of waterways. Eventually these waters coalesce with the Paraná river, forming an expansive transnational river delta that enters the Atlantic Ocean near Buenos Aires, Argentina. According to Prof. Alexandre Delihaicov, the culture of design for river cities emphasizes the architecture of place, the multiple dimension of water and its civic character, where rivers serve as structuring elements in urban and regional design. Viewing the hydrographic basin as a unit for planning and intersectoral management and governance in public administration transforms the approach to infrastructure and city development. Delihaicov leads the “Laboratório de Projetos” (Design Lab) and the “Architecture Design of Fluvial Urban Infrastructures - Grupo Metrópole Fluvial” at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbansim at the University of São Paulo, which has conducted extensive research-by-design projects on several aspects of urban water, the environment, and liveability in the region. Many of the timely and complex challenges facing this vital urban water system—and its connections throughout South America—resonate with those found here in the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta in Northwest Europe, which culminates in the highly urbanized Greater Rotterdam region. The scale and urgency of these challenges was underscored by historic floods in the state of Rio Grade do Sul in recent weeks. In addition to substantial loss of life, hundreds of thousands have been displaced from their homes, and large parts of cities including Porto Alegre remain underwater. Many communities may be permanently displaced by the events. According to Dr. Taneha K. Bacchin, there is an urgent need for a paradigm shift in urban and regional development, one that is more sensitive and responsive to the unfolding state of criticality, socio-environmental vulnerability, and risk. Bacchin has been invited to join multiple local, state and national crisis management and reconstruction projects in the wake of the events. As an Associate Professor of Urbanism at TU Delft, Bacchin also has extensive academic leadership experience in major research initiatives like Water4Change and Redesigning Deltas . Shared recognition of the need for action and cooperation motivates this five year joint research program, “Network of river port cities: Design at the intersection of climate action and urban-environmental health”. The cooperation focuses on the interrelations among six key areas: water, energy transition, nature-based economy, hybrid green-blue infrastructure, transport infrastructure and mobility, health and wellbeing in the built environment. The exchange will facilitate peer-to-peer learning within the larger geographic context of highly dynamic landwater regions, as Deltas, offering global perspectives and regenerative insights. The international and transdisciplinary cooperation builds on a long history of cooperation between the University of São Paulo and TU Delft , including a visit by the Rector of USP to TU Delft in February 2024. It is also the first joint collaboration to also include as partner the Resilient Delta Initiative. “By expanding this relationship to include Erasmus University Rotterdam and other key stakeholders through the Resilient Delta initiative, we can tap new opportunities to speed up our learning, innovation, and intervention,” says Arjan van Timmeren, Scientific Director of RDi. “This program brings fantastic opportunites to strengthen how our universities work together and with key stakeholders in our home cities and regions.” The program connects researchers and practitioners around five research domains and twinned real-world cases. Innovations in water-based mobility, solutions for safe living in climate-vulnerable areas, and strategies for weaving ecological awarness into everyday urban life are among the focuses of the program. The contours of the partnership were sketched out over the course of a three-day seminar in São Paulo in April 2024. This included reflections on current and ongoing transdisciplinary research programs in Brazil and the Netherlands. More than fifty delegates participated in joint presentations hosted by the Municipality of São Paulo, which aims to feed a new Waterway Plan for São Paulo through research-by-design projects. Pedro Martin Fernandes, President of São Paulo Urbanismo, underscored the city’s aspirations for its water infrastructure: “We need to change the city’s relationship with water. Through the transformation and creation of public spaces, we want to change people’s view of this resource.” Resilient Delta will help to resource and co-design the cooperation process, leveraging insights from a growing team of ‘gluon’ knowledge integration experts and insights from ongoing urban and regional collaborations like the Maasterras redevelopment . “This will be particular important for securing successful joint working across science and practice, but also within and between our two urban regions,” says Zac Taylor, Academic Lead for Deltas at RDi. “The complexity and urgency of the assignment before us demands novel approaches to creating knowledge for action. With these creative approaches, we can and must learn to speed up our learning and action between science and practice, and between our two regions.”

Inaugural address Tess Broekmans - The complexity of the everyday

The urban environment is constantly changing. In the city, the major transitions we are struggling with as a country and planet, such as climate, mobility, energy and housing, come together. At the same time, the city is a place where we live together and where we search with each other for practical solutions to those complex and large-scale problems. Tess Broekmans will deliver her inaugural address 'The complexity of the everyday' (De complexiteit van het alledaagse) on Friday 6 September.

Circularity in the Built Environment Graduation Awards 2023-2024

Did you graduate this academic year on a topic related to circularity in the built environment? Then participate in the fifth edition of the Circularity in the Built Environment Graduation Awards. These annual awards recognise the contribution BK graduation students make to the transition towards a circular built environment.

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Tabs as Grid Elements

What changed?

Tabs were difficult to manage, especially when you wanted to re-use and swap content from other pages. Therefore, the tab element has been redesigned for a more user-friendly interface, a better overview of the embedded content, and the added possibility to cut/paste and reference elements in it.

The old Tab element still exists and is not automatically replaced, but will be phased out. For this purpose, the old version has been disabled for editing. In the following weeks, we'll be changing all existing Tab Elements to Tabs Grids. Should you however come across an old Tab Element and you find yourself unable to edit it, please contact your local content manager.

How can I create a new Tabs Grid?

Tabs Grids are created like all other grids. When creating a new element, under Grid Elements, select Tabs grid. This will place a grid on your page with 5 rows, each row representing one of the tabs.

  • The Header in the first element of each tab will also be the title of that tab. So for instance, in this case, the Header of this text element ('How can I create ...') is adapted as Tab title.
  • You can select a colour theme by editing the Tabs Grid properties; under Appearance, select a theme (see fig.)
  • If you don't put any content in a tab, it will be invisible.

 

Any tips and tricks?

When you don't want to start a tab with a header (for instance, when it's an image), you still need to tell Typo3 which title to use for this tab. You can do so by creating a 'Header Only' element, and under Type, select 'Hidden'. This will not show the header inside your tab, but it will be adopted as Tab title.

 

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Youtube video in Header Slider

It is now possible to put a video in the Header Slider on top of any page. 

If you want to add a Youtube video to your header-slider, just paste the youtube URL in the link field of a slide; a play button will be shown on your slide, and a pop-up style video will play when the button is pushed.

Like all slides, this feature also requires you to upload an image.

View an example!

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Full Width page template

This page combines the regular Content page with the Homepage. Its features are identical to the Homepage format in many ways, but it adds the bread crumb on top, so visitors can easily find their way back.

This layout was frequently created with a workaround (Content Page with Left Column, combined with specific element settings), which is why an official option has been included instead. 

To create this layout, go to the page properties, under Appearance, select the Backend Layout 'Content page that is full width'.
(feature renaming can hopefully be included in our next release)

This page is actually an example of this layout. Click 'To Top' to view the breadcrumb.

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Special Page template

This is another new page template (see: Full Width page template). This layout is designed for a long-read format, by dividing the screen in two halves; the left one is designated for images, the right one for all content. There is also a special connection between picture and content, enabling a nice scrolling experience.
Try it out!

This layout is particularly useful for magazine-style pages.

To create this layout:

  • go to the page properties; under Appearance, select the Backend Layout 'Special Page' (see fig.).

  • On this new page, create a new element; under Grid Elements, select Special Container (see fig.). This grid consists of two columns.

  • In the left column, you place a 'Special Image' element.
    This is the image that is displayed stationary alongside the scrolling content on the right; when the visitor is at the end of the content in this Special Container, the image will scroll up, and display the next Special Container.

  • In the right column, you place a normal 100% Grid element.

  • In the element properties of this Grid Element, under Appearance, select 'Used for content on special pages..' (see fig.).

  • Inside this 100% grid, you can place all elements to your liking.

The last steps, creating a 100% grid, are necessary to create the Special layout as it was designed. This element layout compresses the width of the elements within - otherwise, the text would run the entire width of the column.

 

View the new Special Template

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Facts and Figures element

This is a new element to display, for instance, facts and figures.

To create this, add a new Fact element inside a grid. Under Theme, select the header colour.
Then, edit the grid properties, go to the tab Appearance, and choose a background colour under 'Theme'.

Please note: the fact element only properly works in combination with this coloured grid background.

What is the coolest new feature?
Fact Element
How many features are in this new release?
40
Number of new features
11

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Coloured grid background

The background colour feature for grids can also be used without a fact element. It may for instance be useful for magazine-type pages, to highlight a specific text.

Two layout guidelines:

  • Dont overdo it! These coloured grids are very dominant. Don't create an abstract piece of art.
  • See if you should add top and bottom margins (under Appearance), to prevent the grid from overlapping with other elements. 

To create this, edit the grid properties, go to the tab Appearance, and choose a background colour under 'Theme':

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Notification element

This element can be used to draw attention to a certain part of your website, or a call-to-action (for instance, when an application deadline is approaching). You can add one or two buttons. The element is available in all TU Delft theme colours.

To create this, add a new Notification element. Enter a header, text, and theme, and, optionally, one or two buttons. The buttons can either be white or transparent.

Notification element

These are not the only release notes; they are only the new elements. Check out our improvements and bug fixes!

Improvements Bug fixes

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Read More-toggle

This option allows you, in a Text element, to hide paragraphs under a 'read more'-line (as seen below).

To create this, in the Rich Text Editor (RTF) of the Text element, stand in the text on the desired location. Click on 'Insert Custom Element', then 'Tudelft', then 'Insert Readmore'. An orange marker will appear in your text.

To demonstrate this, a piece of literary history:

Alice

There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: a Dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep, and the other two were using it as a cushion, resting their elbows on it, and talking over its head. ‘Very uncomfortable for the Dormouse,’ thought Alice; ‘only, as it’s asleep, I suppose it doesn’t mind.’Read more

The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at one corner of it: ‘No room! No room!’ they cried out when they saw Alice coming. ‘There’s plenty of room!’ said Alice indignantly, and she sat down in a large arm-chair at one end of the table.

‘Have some wine,’ the March Hare said in an encouraging tone.

Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. ‘I don’t see any wine,’ she remarked.

‘There isn’t any,’ said the March Hare.

‘Then it wasn’t very civil of you to offer it,’ said Alice angrily.

‘It wasn’t very civil of you to sit down without being invited,’ said the March Hare.

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Image side caption

An option has been added to display a caption next to an image. This was a feature in the original design, and works well in storytelling articles.

To create this, go the the element properties, under Appearance, and choose 'Image fullwidth with caption'.
On the General tab, under Description, fill in the caption text.

The caption can now be placed next to the image.

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