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.

From flocs to granules: new opportunities for wastewater treatment

On 16 May, Viktor Haaksman will defend his doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Applied Sciences at TU Delft. Together with a large public-private consortium, he developed granular sludge technology that allows existing wastewater treatment plants to increase their capacity without large-scale new construction.

IDE Publication Highlights (Week 20 2024)

IDE researchers have been hard at work getting their research published. This week’s highlights include an award-winning paper, authored by PhD candidate Clarice Risseeuw and her supervisors Holly McQuillan, Joana Martins, and Elvin Karana, which delves into the realm of direct interactions with Flavobacteria.

Student Council(s) elections 2024

Vote now! The elections for the Central Student Council and the Faculty Student Councils are today 15 May 2024 and tomorrow 16 May 2024. How to vote? Voting is very easy! Go to https://vote.tudelft.nl/ and log in with your NedID . The site password.tudelft.nl provides information on how to activate your NetID or reset your password, should it be necessary. When? From Wednesday 15 May 2024 8:00 am until Thursday 16 May 2024 5:00 pm How many candidates can I vote? You can vote to one candidate for the Central Student Council and to one candidate for your Faculty Student Council Election Rules We have a code of conduct to ensure that the elections go smoothly. These rules are included in the Electoral Regulations for the TU Delft Central Student Council and Faculty Student Councils: Electoral Regulations . It is important that every voter ensures that he or she votes without being influenced by other voters and that he or she withholds from direct manipulation of other students. Why voting? Check here why student council is important.

Can municipalities promote health by encouraging bicycle use?

In the Netherlands we exercise too little, as many as 45% do not meet the exercise guideline, which states that we should exercise moderately intensively for at least 150 minutes per week. How do we get more people cycling?

Give people control over AI systems that impact their lives

While government AI systems have the potential to improve things like efficient delivery of services to citizens, they can also harm people’s autonomy. So, how can public AI systems be designed to ensure citizens maintain control over their lives? Through his PhD research, Kars Alfrink says giving citizens a say in when, how, and for what purposes these systems are developed and used is vital.

Untapping the hidden resources

During mining activities to extract valuable materials and minerals, waste streams are generated. But what was once considered waste, isn’t waste with today’s knowledge. Piles of rock, tailings, or metallurgic slags contain materials of economic interest. Intelligent re-mining of the waste streams can provide critical raw materials and reduce the environmental impact of the mining residues. Feven Desta is developing a framework to accurately map and model which minerals are still in the waste streams, how much, where exactly they can be found and how they behave under different circumstances. With secondary mining, she aims to recover critical raw materials from the waste of abandoned and active mines, while simultaneously minimizing possible environmental impacts. “I believe that re-mining mine waste can present a win-win scenario for the economy and environment. It aligns with responsible mining principles and fits in the circular economy concept.” Valuables end up in waste Mine waste often holds minerals of economic interest for several reasons. Firstly, during the extraction and processing of minerals, not all valuable metals can be efficiently recovered, leading them to be deposited in mine waste. Secondly, mining operations tend to focus on specific commodities, such as gold in gold mining, leaving behind other valuable metals like silver, copper, and cobalt, which may also be present in the ore (depending on the geology of the deposit). Also, natural processes like weathering and erosion over time can concentrate certain metals in mine waste, further contributing to its economic potential. “There is a huge volume of mine waste all over the world, and these can have a good potential to serve as an alternative future source for metals and other minerals. However, it is a challenge to extract these metals of economic interest, thus we need to be innovative”, explains Desta. Mapping the minerals in waste Together with colleagues, Desta is working on use cases in different parts of Europe, such as Spain and Germany. They analyse samples using multiple sensor technologies to identify the material and model the composition of different mine waste streams in 3D. This is not as simple as it sounds, for various reasons. Mine waste is a complex system and subject to change due to environmental influences. Considering the multisensory approach , it is possible to fuse data and enhance the accuracy of the quantification and modelling of volumetric compositional variability within the mine waste. “Such approaches allow assessing the potential for secondary mining and help to achieve resource efficiency and waste reduction . Thus, it is one of the key factors to enable us realise economic and environmental benefits and social acceptance,” she says.

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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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