09 Feb 2021
SWS release 3.8 will go out on Thursday 11 February (late afternoon). It should be available for you to use on Friday morning.
The major updates for this release include:
- Calendar import: You can import your events from ICS files now using the calendar import component. This allows events contained in ICS files to be brought into your school website quickly.
The component allows for the ICS file to be uploaded from your local computer or from a web link if the file is publicly available (no login needed). The component will recognise events that it has already imported and allows you to filter events quickly if you need to import only specific ones. Once it is complete, it provides links to the imported events in case you need to do any further edits to them. When you are complete, you use Manage Publication to publish them all live.
See our how-to-guide explaining how to use this component.
- News article image (drag and drop): We've updated the news article component to allow image uploading for news articles to be done either by dragging and dropping the image from your desktop or browsing for the image directly from your computer. If you've already uploaded your image to assets you can still browse through assets, but for new images it isn't necessary to do this for new images.
Learn more about the changes in our how-to-guide.
- Image component (drag and drop): We have updated the image component so it now has drag-and-drop (or browse from your computer) functionality. If your image already exists in assets, you can browse through assets to find it. Otherwise, new images can be uploaded straight through the component.
Our how-to-guide explains how to use the updated component. See our image guidelines for general advice on images.
The Parent App is also available as an initial small scale release. As we go forward, it will receive further enhancements.