{"id":7900,"date":"2011-09-08T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/?p=7900"},"modified":"2024-06-08T09:43:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T13:43:57","slug":"using-slide-mes-for-what-slide-mes-were-intended-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/2011\/using-slide-mes-for-what-slide-mes-were-intended-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Slide Me\u2019s for what Slide Me\u2019s were intended"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Using Slide Me\u2019s for what Slide Me\u2019s were intended\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>One of the great things about working in Web Services is the calibre of our clients. Often, when we introduce a new functionality or feature of our service we find our clients have thought of a new and extended use for it before we have even finished our sentence. This is always awesome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or almost always. Occasionally the dynamic nature of our clientele and their ability to use and adapt the tools we give them pushes the envelope until the envelope is not very happy. This is the case with the Slide Me function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slide Me\u2019s were introduced to enable Frequently Asked Question to appear beautifully, fluidly and seamlessly on CCMS pages. They are designed to take one or perhaps two sentences of text. No additional formatting, or bullet points, or tables (either inside the Slide Me&#8217;s or containing them), videos, forms, iframe includes, nested Slide Me\u2019s (!) Flash animations, photo galleries or online shopping carts. And yet we are finding more and more that Slide Me\u2019s are being required to take all these items. One or two lines of text have, in some cases, been expanded to several hundred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we have made a decision around Slide Me\u2019s: we are not going to take them away, but <strong>we are going to deprecate support for Slide Me\u2019s which contain anything more than two sentences of plain text.<\/strong> We are very happy that some of our clients get so excited by the opportunity to use these features; but realistically we are spending a lot of time trying to fix unsolvable issues because they are being filled to bursting with which is too complex or too voluminous. Remember also that the point of Slide Me\u2019s is to <strong>hide<\/strong> content \u2013 if what you have put into the Slide Me is such crucial information then break it out into its own page \u2013 make every Slide Me into its own page and then the content is so much easier for our users to find!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great things about working in Web Services is the calibre of our clients. Often, when we introduce a new functionality or feature of our service we find our clients have thought of a new and extended use for it before we have even finished our sentence. This is always awesome. Or almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[369],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carleton-cms"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"announcement"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}