Basic Template: Staff List

• Text Editor Component (or Text Editor with Of Note)
  • should contain title (Heading 1)
  • should contain an introduction to the stafflist (optional if title is clear)
• Staff List Component
  • staff can be listed by category:
    • category name
  • each staff member  contains
    • name (required)
    • title
    • location
    • email (clickable or not)
    • phone
    • biographical text
    • hidden content
    • image

note: Multiple categories of Staff Listings can be created using a single Staff Listing Component.

Example Pages Using the Staff List Component

• using 2 rows
  • first row: Text Editor — contains Page Title and opening description
  • second row: Staff Listing — Category Title and staff members (image, name, title, location, phone, email, bio, hidden content)
    • this example uses the same component to add another staff category
      

• using 2 rows
  • first row: Text Editor — contains Page Title and contact information
  • second row: Staff List
    • first group of staff does not have a category title
    • second group of staff has category title
      

Editing a Page Using the Staff List Component

• Click Add Content from the left side of the top bar in Cascade.
  
• A dropdown will appear, allowing you to choose what type of content you want to add to your website
  • Select New Page
    

• The Page Name is tpart of the url
  • use all small letters
  • don’t have any spaces
  • you can use underscore (_) or dash (-)
• In this example the name of the page is “stafflist”
• In this example the URL will be :
  http://www.wesleyan.edu/its/stafflist.html
• Editing Metadata:
  There are two main fields in the metadata that you should edit
  • Display name: what shows up in the navigation bar, if indexed
    • in this example we put Staff List — that will show up in the navigation
  • Title: browser tab name, default book mark name, very good for searchability
    • in this example we put Staff List (the Information Technology Service was already there — you should leave your department name in the title field)
      
• go back to the Content tab
• add your content to the Component section
  • Select the Text Editor radio button
    • Put a Title on the page using Header 1 formatting
    • include an introductory paragraph(s)
  • Use the green plus sign to add a new Row
    • use a new row to add a new component to the page (in this example we will add a Staff List component)
      
  • Select the Staff Listing radio button
    • use the Category Title if grouping the staff (optional)
    • each staff listing contains optional fields
      • name (required)
      • title
      • location
      • email (clickable or not)
      • phone
      • biographical text
      • hidden content
      • image
    • use the green plus sign on the Staff Member Info to add additional staff
      
  • If another category of staff is needed :
    • use the green plus sign on Staff Category to add
    • add staff to the section using the green plus sign next to Staff Member Info
• when your edits are done
  • Press the Preview Draft button
  • if the draft looks good in Cascade
  • press the Submit button to save your changes to the database.