Updates | Arizona Quickstart

July 11, 2022

Dimensional Design Elements

Cards and Text on Media are both getting new design features to enhance user engagement and give you more control.

Expect your clickable cards to look slightly different when updates are applied.

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Present Faculty Publications on your Arizona Site

Aug. 14, 2023

Quickstart Publications is a new module that will let you display published academic articles, publications, and other works.

The Quickstart Publications module is an extremely robust tool, allowing you to format publication bibliographies to adhere to various formats such as MLA, AMA, Chicago, IEEE, and more!

Access 10,000 Images With the Digital Asset Library

Aug. 14, 2023

With major improvements from its initial release, the Quickstart Digital Asset Library module has been updated for the 2.7 release making it easier than ever to access the University’s vast library of digital assets for use on your Quickstart website.

Taken at the VETS (Veterans Education & Transition Services) Center at the Student Union.

New Support for Content Translations

Aug. 14, 2023

University of Arizona is a Hispanic Serving Institution and globally connected to micro campuses all over the world. We have needed a way for site owners to reach their audiences in multiple languages. Now you can.

The Quickstart Multilingual module allows users to seamlessly switch between multiple languages that you’ve integrated into your site!

Quickstart 2.6 content update bug (Fixed as of 2.6.2)

March 31, 2023

There has been a bug uncovered with our Quickstart 2.6 release that was rolled out over the last several weeks that makes it more difficult to update existing content on your website. This issue has since been fixed.

Enhanced Quickstart Menu

Oct. 17, 2022

The Quickstart link in your top menu now shows the current version number of the site you are logged into, which will be useful should you ever find yourself in need of any troubleshooting or support.

Improved Breadcrumbs

Oct. 17, 2022

In Quickstart 2.5.0 the breadcrumbs, (the small links at the top of your page showing your current location in a site’s navigational structure), have been improved.

Dimensional Design Elements

July 11, 2022

Cards and Text on Media are both getting new design features to enhance user engagement and give you more control.

Expect your clickable cards to look slightly different when updates are applied.

Duplicating Content

June 2, 2022

You will now be able to clone existing pages to speed up your site building!

New Persona Menu

March 18, 2022

The newly added Persona Menu (also called the Select Menu) will let your site visitors self identify which group they belong to so that you can direct them to the most appropriate content.

Release Plan

Arizona Quickstart is constantly being updated with new features. Below is our targeted plan for minor releases.

2.3.0 Release target: June 2022
2.4.0 Release target: July 2022
2.5.0 Release target: August 2022
2.6.0 Release target: November 2022
2.7.0 Release target: June 2023

Please note: These dates may change at any time.

Minor Releases

A minor release is made when new features are added to Quickstart. Minor releases are thoroughly tested with the campus community and are considered stable.

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Patch Releases

Patch releases are made when there are security updates or bug fixes that need to be applied to the existing supported minor releases. Patch releases do not have a schedule.

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