A brand-new Hero Carousel component has been introduced to enhance homepage storytelling and engagement.
Key Features
Impact
Editors can now schedule content publication and unpublication directly from the CMS.
Key Features
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Webmasters can now customize page backgrounds at both global and page level.
Key Features
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A new chatbot feature has been deployed across VSF, enabling interactive user support directly on veolia.com .
Key Features
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⚠️ Note on Veolia Chat:
The feature is currently being tested on veolia.com.
We are actively working on controlling the volume of requests before a wider rollout.
An issue affecting newly created sites caused incorrect homepage configuration in basic site settings (veolia.gr).
Resolution
The homepage setting logic has been corrected using an existing fix previously applied to similar cases.
Impact
Several issues related to the chatbot feature have been addressed to ensure a smoother and more consistent experience across all sites.
Fixes Included
Impact
A proposed video preview feature in media creation was reviewed.
Resolution
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Following the previous alert regarding the bug in the Webform Bulk Update feature, several webforms on veolia.com were found to display incorrect or generic fields due to configuration inconsistencies.
Resolution
The affected forms have been restored to their configuration from the 29 October 2025 backup, ensuring the correct structure and fields are now displayed.
Impact
When accessing a page directly through a URL containing an anchor (for example from newsletters or emails), the targeted section could appear partially hidden behind the sticky navigation header.
Resolution
Anchor navigation now correctly accounts for the header offset, ensuring the targeted content is fully visible when the page loads.
Impact
An issue prevented certain bulk redirect files from being processed correctly in the back office.
Resolution
Redirect import validation has been clarified and corrected to ensure files are processed successfully when using the proper format.
Impact
A new Collapsible Container component is now available across all sites.
Editors can group content inside an expandable section that users can open or collapse using a “Show more / Show less” toggle.
This feature helps keep pages clean and easier to scan, while still allowing access to detailed information when needed.
👉 A step-by-step tutorial is available below to learn how to use this new component.
Open the page you want to edit and click Add Paragraph then select Collapsible Container.
This component acts as a wrapper that allows you to group multiple content elements.
The component includes two required fields:
Expand Label
Default value: Show more
This text appears when the content is collapsed.
Example alternatives:
Collapse Label
Default value: Show less
This text appears once the content is expanded.
Inside the Content Items field, add the elements you want to hide behind the expandable section.
The container supports all paragraph types available on the site, such as: Text, Images, Videos and other content components. Multiple elements can be added inside the same container.
Once the page is published, the content inside the container is partially hidden with a Show more button appears below the content.
When the page loads:
When users click Show more:
Clicking Show less collapses the content again.
Access to the Broken Links report has been reviewed to ensure web managers can monitor and resolve link issues efficiently.
Confirmation
An intermittent issue affecting reCAPTCHA validation on webforms has been investigated.
Enhancements
Thank you for your continued support and feedback. Stay tuned for the next release, already in development! 🌟
Site Factory
On the contact pages of websites, phone numbers were not clickable. In the back office, the “Notice for access” field in the Address block did not generate clickable links on the front-end. This led to a poor user experience (UX) and reduced visibility of contact information.
✨ Improvements:
✅ A new field, field_location_notice_html, has been created, supporting HTML.
✅ Phone numbers are now clickable directly in the Address block.
✅ Webmasters can easily manage these links in the back office.
✅ Data migration was completed without any loss of existing content.
✅ UX is improved: users can see and call numbers immediately, without extra clicks.
🧩 Good to know for webmasters:
Some inconsistencies were identified in Google Analytics 4 data on veolia.kr:
✨ What’s been improved:
✅ Backend URLs can now be excluded from GA4 tracking using URL pattern rules.
✅ The root page “/” has been added to the exclusion list to prevent tracking before redirection.
✅ GA4 data is now cleaner and more reliable.
✅ Page views are correctly attributed to /ko and /en homepages.
🧩 Good to know for webmasters:
The file upload feature was temporarily unavailable, preventing users from selecting or dragging and dropping files for import. This issue has now been resolved, and files can be uploaded normally again, making bulk media management smooth and seamless.
✨ What’s been improved:
✅ File upload now works as expected.
✅ Files can be selected or dragged & dropped.
The Content Push component was showing unnecessary white space between the image and text when placed inside an Accordion, affecting the visual layout.
✨ What’s been improved:
✅ Content Push now displays without white space when used inside an Accordion.
✅ The image and text are properly aligned, making content visually consistent.
Some hubpages (listing pages) of press releases on veolia.co.uk were occasionally showing zero content, leaving the page blank for users.
✨ What’s been improved:
✅ Press Release pages on Veolia UK now display content immediately if available.
✅ When no content is present, a clear message is shown: “No results found. Please adjust your filters or clear all filters to view available items.”
✅ The message is translatable and consistent across all listing pages.
Thank you for your continued support and feedback. Stay tuned for the next release, already in development! 🌟
Site Factory
On sites using Baidu Maps, the map was not behaving consistently with Google Maps. The issues consisted of being unable to zoom or highlight the corresponding pin on the map, or even highlight the location in the listing. This behaviour did affect both test and live Chinese sites.
✨ What’s been fixed: Baidu Maps now mirrors Google Maps behaviour.
✅ Clicking a list item zooms & highlights the correct pin
✅ Clicking a pin highlights the item in the list
✅ No regressions on either map provider
✅ Consistent UX across all countries
On Foundation and Watertech sites, uploading non-image files (such as .txt or .pdf) in the theme settings caused an ImageMagick fatal error to appear in the DBLog:
“ImageMagick error 1: no decode delegate for this image format…”
This error occurred because the system attempted to process unsupported file types as images.
✨ What’s been fixed: The logo and favicon upload fields now strictly accept image formats only: svg, jpeg, jpg, png, gif. Any other file type is blocked before upload with a clear validation error
The fix applies consistently across all custom themes.
An issue where manual photo cropping was not reflected on the front end has been resolved.
✨ What’s been fixed:
✅ Crop-freeform applied in the back office is now correctly displayed
✅ The image style respects manual cropping
✅ Employee photos render correctly on all relevant pages
✅ No impact on images without manual cropping
✨ What’s fixed:
✅ Old PDF URLs now automatically redirect (301) to the updated file
✅ No more broken links when documents are replaced
✅ Redirection works consistently across all update scenarios
✅ Existing redirects remain unaffected
🧩 Step-by-step
✨ What’s fixed:
To restore a smooth and comfortable editing experience:
✅ The full-screen (expand window) button is back in the CKEditor toolbar
✅ Additional tools (Find & Replace, Select All, Emojis, Word & Character count) are fully enabled
✅ Toolbar layout is consistent and stable across all sites
✅ No regression in standard (non-full-screen) editing mode
1️⃣ Open a Text Component in Edit Mode
What to do
➡️ The CKEditor toolbar appears at the top of the text area.
2️⃣ Use the “Expand Window” (Full-Screen Mode)
What you’ll see : A full-screen icon in the top-left of the toolbar. This button was restored after the CKEditor update
What it does: Expands the editor to full screen and makes long content editing much easier
3️⃣ Find & Replace Text Instantly
What it does: Quickly search for words and replace text across the whole content.
5️⃣ Insert Emojis & Check Word Count
Emoji icon available in the toolbar. Useful for light content, internal pages, or announcements.
Word & character count is displayed at the bottom of the editor
Select All : Quickly select all content with one click
Text transformations : Automatic smart formatting (quotes, dashes, etc.) Improves text consistency without manual effort
🧩 Schema.org Fix: Correct dateModified Token
An issue was spotted in Drupal’s Schema.org markup: dateModified was incorrectly showing the creation date, resulting in duplicate “creation date” values in the structured data.
✨ What’s fixed:
To ensure Google and other search engines read the right update date:
✅ dateModified now uses the correct token: [node:changed:html_datetime]
✅ Schema.org markup no longer repeats the creation date twice
✅ datePublished remains unchanged and continues to display the correct creation date
✅ Consistent, accurate structured data across nodes for better SEO clarity
🔐 Draft Page Listing Fixed for Token Access:
When draft pages were accessed via a temporary access token, listing views could fail to load and appear empty, even though content existed. This mainly affected pages which are using Content Push Tag listings.
✅ Listings now load correctly when the draft pages are accessed via a token
✅ Results shown via token access do match admin and published views
✅ No more empty or broken listings for reviewers
✅Legacy behaviour restored with no regression or logged-in users
New sites created in the Site Factory now automatically include the full set of default pictograms and business stamps. Previously, admins had to request a manual migration to load pictograms on newly created sites. This behaviour has now been fully automated.
✨ What’s improved:
This limitation was caused by a content governance state issue on paragraphs, preventing deletion actions from appearing.
✨ What’s improved:
To restore expected back-office behaviour for VWT teams:
✅ The “Delete” option is now available for HP Solutions media items
✅ Editors can fully manage (edit / remove) HP Solutions on both VWT Corporate and Poland sites
✅ Paragraphs are now correctly set to the Local Subscriber governance state
✅ A dedicated batch process ensures existing HP Solutions items are updated consistently across subscriber sites
This brings HP Solutions management back in line with standard editorial workflows and avoids unnecessary content duplication.
Thank you for your continued support and feedback. Stay tuned for the next release, already in development! 🌟
Site Factory
Saving updates in the site settings page—for example, to add or update media in the service button or CTA section—resulted in PHP errors and critical log entries.
This has now been fixed. A successful save now provides confirmation, and changes are correctly saved without errors.
The CKEditor color selection was no longer displaying the full set of predefined website colors (e.g. dark green, forest green, black 10/20/30). Only a limited number of colors appeared, even after clearing the Drupal and Site Factory caches.
This issue has now been fixed, and the complete color palette—matching Veolia’s brand guidelines—is once again available in the editor.
This issue has now been fixed, and the text colors defined in the editor are properly rendered on the front-end pages.
A new "Blog" content type has been created to centralize all blog content, facilitate future upgrades, and integrate all components available in the standard "Page" type.
This new type supports a full-width title, works without a mandatory Hero Banner, and includes a clickable hashtags/filters system (for future enhancement).
Discover the blog pages with a fresh and consistent style and design.
It is now possible to import content in a different language than the one it was originally exported in.
Steps to Export:
Steps to Import:
Hreflang tags are no longer generated for languages that are hidden in the site’s language switcher. This helps avoid SEO issues related to inaccessible language versions.
In the UK KDC Decommissioning pages, banner images were linked across live and draft pages, causing changes on one page to affect all others. This issue affected only the UK site and has now been addressed so that each page’s banner can be managed independently.
Although text hyphenation is enabled on https://www.veolia.co.uk/, it was not applied to the text in the webform checkboxes. This has now been fixed, and hyphenation is correctly displayed in the webform checkboxes.
Previously, admin users saw the popin block appearing unexpectedly at the bottom of the back office.
Now, the popin block is only shown as a popup on the front-end pages for site visitors, and no longer appears on admin pages. Admins and content contributors can still manage the popin block without it displaying on the back office.
When trying to delete around 50 items at once using the “Delete selected entities/translations” option, the operation was failing. This issue has now been addressed to allow smooth deletion of multiple items in bulk.
The “Duplicate” and “Copy to another place” buttons were not showing correctly on the last component of a page.
This display issue has been fixed, so these buttons now appear properly on all components.
The values added in the Multiple Choices Links Block were not appearing correctly on the front-end, especially the second dropdown values. This issue has been fixed, and all dropdown values now display properly.
✅ Replacement of TheSans font by Noto Sans
✅ Update of social network icons
ℹ️ Note: The webp converter initially planned for this release has been postponed to a later version (end of July or next release in August) due to technical problems encountered during testing.
Following the page template project, the Import/Export button is now accessible to Site Managers. The export issue on solution pages has been fixed. Zip files can now be prepared and shared easily between websites. This is currently only for the pilot websites in this project.
The tab order in the 'Technologies' template in the VWT RCP has been updated: the 'Product range' tab now appears before the 'Resources' tab.
Webforms can now be opened in popups via menu links or the text editor using predefined CSS classes. This improves flexibility and simplifies user interactions. Documentation has been updated accordingly.
First, go to Admin > Structure > Menus on your site. Then, select the menu that contains the link to the webform. After that, scroll down to the Attributes section in the menu link form. In the Classes field, add one of the following classes to set the popup width:
Go to the page where you want to add the webform link. In edit mode, insert the link into the text. Open the Advanced section of the link options. Then, add the appropriate classes (e.g. webform-dialog webform-dialog-normal). finally, click Save to apply the changes.
The issue preventing the creation of Links media through the media browser has been resolved. Users can now add Links media without errors.
The issue preventing the 'Events' breadcrumb item from displaying in Chinese, despite being translated, has been fixed. The translation now appears correctly as expected.
The issue with the dropdown menu not displaying correctly on the French contact page of veoliawatertechnologies.com has been resolved. This bug, affecting all VWT websites using Salesforce Web-to-Lead, is now fixed and the form displays properly across all sites.
To enhance SEO performance, several fields have been made mandatory across all content type:
Important Note: This will not impact existing pages; you only need to add it for new pages or when updating an existing page.
The dropdown menu in the breadcrumb navigation has been removed to enhance SEO, accessibility, and crawlability. This update ensures:
The Business Case content type, previously exclusive to the RCP, is now accessible across all VWT websites.
We've updated the Select field using Choices.js to ensure it aligns with our webform theme. 🚀
An issue preventing webmasters from viewing draft pages due to a 404 error has been resolved. The problem was linked to language settings affecting draft accessibility. Adjustments have been made to ensure draft pages are always viewable by Administrators and Site Managers.
You can now embed Bilibili videos on your sites, just like YouTube and Vimeo. The video remains hidden until the user gives consent via Didomi, and once accepted, the video is displayed automatically.
Two new taxonomies have been added, allowing for better categorization and filtering of content. This update makes it easier to organize and display articles based on selected tags.
These taxonomies are fully manageable from the admin panel, giving you more flexibility in structuring your content efficiently. Find the tutorial here!
Several components, like Hero Banner, Content Push, and Media, now reflect the new color scheme, ensuring a unified experience. In some components, text and icon colors automatically adjust to the background to meet accessibility standards (e.g., the social media block on the homepage and HP medias). Ensure optimal readability by maintaining proper contrast ratios with this tool.
The same goes for the Didomi video settings page, which now features updated background color options to make color selection easier.
Business Banner Stamps Update 🖼️
The business banner stamps have been updated to adopt the new color scheme, improving accessibility and readability.
The foreground text color in Webform details now displays correctly with white text on both gray and white backgrounds.
The font color for the Attachment field is now consistently white across all background settings, improving clarity and readability.
The issue with inconsistent table border colors in CKEditor, which was working in Chrome but not in Firefox, has been fixed. Borders now display consistently across both browsers.
Preview
🗺️ The map has been removed, streamlining the user experience and enhancing speed and simplicity.
👉 Cross-site sharing is now seamless, ensuring a unified and consistent experience across all platforms
📷 Image upload now works on the first try, and the cropping tool is fully functional, streamlining the image management process.
⏳The auto logout delay has been restored, returning to the original duration of several hours instead of just 10 minutes. There will be a notification pop if you are not active for all the tabs.
The issue preventing the addition of the HP Solutions block in the VWT Belgium website https://watertechbelgium.veolia.acsitefactory.com has been resolved, enabling seamless content addition within the "Homepage media container".
✅ Error-free integration ensures smooth content editing when selecting the HP Solutions block.
An issue was reported on www.industries.veolia.com regarding hreflang tags and translation, which was impacting the site's SEO performance.
Thanks to these fixes, we achieve:
🌐 Better compatibility for multilingual environments, ensuring proper language redirection and avoiding duplicate content.
🔗 An optimized URL structure for better SEO performance, with clean and user-friendly links.
➡️ Correctly configured hreflang tags, improving indexing and user experience across regions.
🖥️ The page now displays correctly across all devices and browsers.
🔒 UI issues on the password reset page have been fixed for a smoother user experience.
📋 It is now possible to duplicate all types of media effortlessly.
🔄Duplication now works smoothly across all profiles.