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Profiles, Events, and News Articles

Some special types of content like profiles, events, and news articles can be re-purposed in different areas across your site.  Profiles can be viewed as a list, as a single block on your homepage, or as a standalone page.  To allow for such functionality, creating and editing this kind of content requires a little more work than your basic page.

When you view a "directory page" like this one, you're actually seeing a collection of profiles.  Drupal pulls that page together on the fly.  Whenever we add a new profile to the site, it automatically gets inserted into that view.  Because of this, we can't edit the view directly.  We need to add, remove, and edit individual profiles to see changes there.

Profiles

How to create a profile

  1. Go to Content management -> Create content -> Profile
  2. Fill in the Name fields
  3. Upload a photo from your computer (must be at least 300x300 pixels)
  4. Add their Subheading (official title or year of graduation) and Suffix (ie, Ph.D.)
  5. Enter their contact information in the Teaser field (or a quote if this is an alumni profile).  This teaser is what you'll see next to their photo on the directory view.
  6. Select ther Profile type
  7. Add their Description.  For faculty, this should include a brief bio, their degrees, courses taught, and any research interests, publications, and websites they maintain.  If you don't have such information, it's OK to simply enter their contact information a second time here.
  8. Save the profile

How to edit or delete a profile

  1. Go to Content management -> Content
  2. Find their profile in the list, and click the Edit link to the right
  3. Make whatever changes (or deletion) necessary
  4. Save the profile

Creating events

How to create an event

  1. Go to Content management -> Create content -> Event
  2. Fill in the Title field
  3. Enter a website URL into the Event Link field
  4. Expand the Authoring Information section
  5. Enter the date/time when the event is going to start in the Authored on: field. Use the following format:  YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM
  6. Save the event

How to edit or delete an event

  1. Go to Content management -> Content
  2. Find the event in the list, and click the Edit link to the right
  3. Make whatever changes (or deletion) necessary
  4. Save the event

Creating news articles

How to create a news article

  1. Go to Content management -> Create content ->News article
  2. Fill in the Title field
  3. Provide a brief summary in the Teaser field
  4. Select one or more categories (by ctrl-clicking) from the News Articles section.  This will help us sort your articles into lists later on.
  5. Enter the Body of the article
  6. Normally, Drupal will display the date you posted the news article under its headline.  If you need to change that date, change the Authored on: field. Use the following format:  YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM
  7. Save the profile

How to edit or delete a news article

  1. Go to Content management -> Content
  2. Find the news article in the list, and click the Edit link to the right
  3. Make whatever changes (or deletion) necessary
  4. Save the news article