SF.gov publisher's newsletter

February 2022, updates edition

Hi SF.gov publishers,

If you thought, "Hey I just got this newsletter!" it certain seems that way, since February is a short month. But we've got some new updates on SF.gov we'd love to show off!

Thank as always for being fantastic partners, getting services and information to all San Franciscans.

GET HELP

Training and support

Sign up for training to get the meeting invitations and to get a publishing account. Anyone who works for the City is welcome!

Public Body and Meetings - Thursday, March 3, 11 am to 12 pm (not regularly scheduled, so sign up now!)
Publishing on SF.gov (the basics) - First and third Wednesday, 11 am to 12 pm
Introduction to SF.gov - Second Wednesday, 11 am to 12 pm
Writing for SF.gov - Fourth Wednesday, 11 am to 12 pm

And you can always ping us on Teams if you have a question.

NEW FEATURES

What's new for publishers

Get your very own MS Planner page to track your migrations

If you use Microsoft Planner, we can make a Planner page for your department within our Sharepoint site. Just let us know if you want one!

Screenshot of a sample Planner page, with tasks organized in a kanban board.

Dates no longer required when uploading documents

If you upload a document without a date, a link to the document will still be shown, with the date field blank. If you create a document without an upload and without a date, the date field will read "Upcoming." This should give you a lot of flexibility when using Resource Collection pages!

A list of various examples when uploading (or not uploading) documents with or without dates.

Images now have a maximum width of 1000px

To help users without a sizeable data plan, we've added automatic resizing. 

Whatever image you upload to SF.gov will be converted to have a max width of 1000px. That extra width wasn't being used anyway, since we limited the page width for readability. 

Streamlined SEO with forms and transactions

If you have a form hosted on SF.gov, it will not be found by search engines now. Its transaction page will be found instead, which should help funnel users correctly through any application flows.

Coming soon

Multi-day events
Tag a Public Body on an information page, in addition to a Department
Even more updates on Department pages, including more prominent logos

DID YOU KNOW?

Tips for publishing

Writing content for SF.gov? Use a content type template!

Among the gems of knowledge in our documentation, we have links to Google Doc templates for all of our content types if you visit each page.

Go to the content types documentation.

Screenshot of the Content type documentation on Confluence

Hope to see you on Teams!

Thank you!

Anita, Persis, Sharon, Mary, Bekah, and the SF.gov team

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