Notes from work on the WS site
Posted by mholmes on 05 Sep 2013 in Activity log
As HR and I tidy up the last details of the WS site port to the 2012 templates, I've learned a few things worth remembering. First, notes on the Faculty listings page and individual faculty member pages:
- Each faculty member has a page in the faculty directory which is created using the New / UVic Pages / Faculty Profile template.
- There is a block called assets/blocks/index/site-navigation-index-faculty which is set up as a folder index for the faculty folder.
- That is included as the content of assets/blocks/content/profiles/profile-chooser-faculty, which is set to "Profile table" for its list type.
- That block is placed on the faculty index page.
We need to do the same thing with the sessionals, but right now there is no Sessional Page templage (LG is getting one added for us). We could use the Faculty Page thing, but that's programmed to automatically drop the page into the faculty folder, so you'd have to move each one as you create it. Once that's done:
- Create a new block called assets/blocks/index/site-navigation-index-sessionals, which is cloned from site-navigation-index-faculty but pointed at the sessionals directory instead.
- Edit assets/blocks/content/profiles/profile-chooser-sessionals so that it uses profile-builder-block-chooser-2012 instead of the current profile-builder-2012, and specify our site-navigation-index-sessionals block as the Profile index block.
- Insert profile-chooser-sessionals as the content of the index page in the sessionals folder.
Other stuff:
- The footer comes pre-configured with contact info for the University rather than the department; that has to be changed in assets/blocks/templates/footer. You can also add other columns to the footer if you need to.
- Social media links are supposed to have class="facebook", class="twitter" or class="flickr", but these options are not available in the link dialog box, so someone has to add them manually into the code. LG is trying to get this fixed.
- You get some default buttons in the home page title bar ("Apply online" and "Our programs"), but these are not linked to anything. You can edit them in a block: assets/blocks/content/template/title-index.