The Following are basic instructions and further explanation for our content types on the CIRES website. Please review the Creating New Content Documentation to better learn how to add content in a general sense. Also note that more often than not there is helpful text below fields while editing that may require explanation of usage.
Global Fields
All content types will always have a ‘Title’ which won’t be described in the below content types but note that this title is what the user sees, how you find the content in the Content Overview and will be the generated url once you save the content.
Tabs within Content Types
Be aware that content types may have differing option sets such as metadata that must be toggled to view the additional options on the editing form.
Awards
Awards are a very straight forward content type, to display the awards and recognition of CIRES people. Note the Add Media field does require knowledge on how to correctly upload media.
Events
Best practices and options for our landing pages.
Our events are quick and easy to add to and include the following fields:
The Event Date:
This includes both the ‘event date’ and the event date end. This displays when your event starts, it can be open ended or may include an end time and date. Note that the day, month, year is required within both fields so we can identify the duration of your event.
Body Text and Paragraphs:
Include your body text and if desired, any additional paragraphs to display images or embedded videos from the event that took place.
Metadata
- There are plenty of metadata options to sort and display your event. The Host, Audience, and Event Type. Add these as applicable.
- Add a building / room / location if applicable
- Reference a Research Group if applicable
- People reference, referencing content and people that are on the CIRES site
- Display on - more information on this here.
Job
The only use case to add a new job is if it is a STUDENT job type, the general job type is fed in automatically, if you were to add a job that is not of type student it will be deleted and lost as the feed runs.
Uploading a student job is the only use case and it is important the field of ‘Job Type’ is set to Student so it displays in the correct region on the site. Outside of this, it is a very straight forward and standard content type.
Student Jobs are one of few content types that includes a scheduling option. Please review the scheduling content but in short, you add in your start and stop dates and the site will take care of the rest
Creating a Student Job
Logging in
Logging in
Note, you must have an existing account on your website which is tied to the CU LDAP aka your identikey username. If you are in need of an account please reach out to ciresithelp@colorado.edu and please provide your identikey username, CU email address, as well as your full name.
- While on the CU VPN, browse to “admin-cires.colorado.edu/user @ or ‘your-site-name.edu/user’
- Use your CU Identikey username and password
- You will now be logged in and may begin making edits and new content.
Note that Drupal ALWAYS has a login that utilizes the ‘/user’ path
Depending on your editing needs, you will be assigned a role type. Each role has varying degrees of permissions on the site.
Creating Student Job
Using the administrative toolbar, hover over ‘Content’ then select → ‘Add new Content’ → ‘Job
Filling in the Job content field
The student jobs content type may use a scheduling system if you choose, this will allow you to set a ballpark time for the job to be removed so that you don’t need to log back in and unpublish or remove it manually. The fields look like the following in the right-hand sidebar when editing:
Know that even though you set a specific minute to unpublish, the process can take up to 3 hours to run and then unpublish.
- Unpublish On → When should this job be removed from the site?
Note that it may take up to 6 hours for the job to either ‘publish’ or ‘display’ based on when the site refreshes itself, always consider this as a by the minute and precise scheduling is not available.
- Job Type → SELECT STUDENT
- Job Number → What is the Job number ( if available )
- Job Department Title → What is the Job Department Title
- Job URL → Enter in an url to this job posting if available, note to include the full url ‘https://link-to-your-url’
- Title → What is this Job’s title?
- Body → What is this Job’s description?
- Job Posting Contact → Who is the job posting contact?
- Job Posting Contact Email → What is their email?
Save
- Select the ‘Save’ button to save your job item. As of writing this, the student job will then display within the ‘student jobs’ tab on the following page note dev url used
Landing Pages
Best practices and options for our landing pages.
Our landing pages are the most common pages found on the CIRES website, they offer a variety of layout options, filterable types and can display your content in a huge set of customized ways.
In general, our pages should have a banner image if available, must have a title and sub title and then depending on the page you can decide your option set detailed below. Our landing pages and all pages on the site are designed to be the one location for the content’s information. In other words, we try to not daisy chain multiple landing pages but instead would prefer to use tabs, columns or other nested display solutions. Doing this means that we are giving our users and those interested in CIRES’ efforts ONE place to discover that specific content and makes our interlinked content all the more powerful.
Please review the Uploading Media documentation for best practices when uploading media to the website.
Title and Subtitle
Note that the title and subtitle will display one after the other and the sub title field itself is utilized as the ‘summary’ option on its exterior card.
Sidebar Paragraphs
Landing pages can display a useful sidebar if desired, mainly to reference other pieces of content on the site, place a logo or have a pop up for additional contact info to name a few uses.
Paragraphs
Our landing pages have access to the widest set of paragraph types available. Allowing you to create your pages in the order and structurally the way you prefer, of course with some standardization limitations. Utilizing the options described below you can make a page as complex as our front page ( which uses paragraphs, a hidden title and the paragraphs only option ) to a simple about page to a verbose and lengthy research group page. Please review the Using Paragraphs documentation for specific information per paragraph.
Options
Overlay Title
If you have a banner image uploaded, have the text overlay on top of the image
Hide Title
No title necessary on this landing page? Hide it with this toggle. This can be useful if you are utilizing paragraphs for title display purposes but note this page and url are tied to the actual title.
Paragraphs Only
This options hides all of the information that generally displays above the paragraphs, allowing you to use ONLY the paragraphs to craft your page.
Icon
Use a ‘fontawesome’ icon on your page, this will display if you have not uploaded a banner image and your landing page is being referenced. An example would simply be “heart” to display a heart.
Short name
This is for search. If your page is commonly referred to as a shorter name (i.e ESOC etc) add it here so that acronym will show up in search.
Uber Pages
These are higher level options sets for landing pages. They require set up and care. Here is a link to the documentation, but it has further restrictions so you may not be able to view it.
News
Please review the Uploading Media documentation for best practices when uploading media to the website.
Note that News has two tabs, News and Metadata and Contacts
Our news content type is a column structured news page as seen and structured off of news displays from across the web and on applications.
Title and Subtitle
Note that the title and sub title lock ups will display one after the other and the sub title is utilized as the ‘summary’ option on its exterior card.
Display Boilerplate
Tick this if you want the standard ‘CIRES is a partnership of NOAA and **CU Boulder’** to display between your last paragraph and your contacts.
Note that the share icons are nested on this option set
Display More News
This is ticked ‘On’ by default but you can turn off the ‘Recent news’ from displaying below the contacts on the full page.
Text Blocks and Paragraphs
Being as our news items are column structured, a new news item automatically starts with a ‘Text Block’ paragraph type. This allows you to structure your news story however you see fit with the paragraphs provided. Do note that there are specific paragraphs available on news as we won’t want to introduce oddities of having multiple columns within our singular column layout, for example. However, aside from this you may create your news item with draggable paragraph blocks to display images, galleries, maps, etc to tell your news story how you see fit.
Metadata and Contacts
The news content type has a ‘Footer Paragraph’ which works as all paragraph fields do but are specific to the contacts you may add to your news item. You may add a content reference where you will reference a person or even another page on the site if desired ( would make sense if it were a research group. If the desired contact doesn’t exist opt for the ‘Contact’ paragraph type to add in as much information as desired for this contact who doesn’t exist in our profile feed.
Display on profile
This field, while redundant to the above paragraph, is required to display news ON a person’s profile. Simple tag as many people using this field to then have this specific news item on their profile. Note we separated these fields out to give more granular display control over a contact vs. display on profile.
Geofield
To tag your news item to our global map, simply zoom out, drag the red marker to the location of the news and you’re done. The news item now has a geocode address and will display on the full site map. Please review our Paragraph documentation for more information.
Metadata
Research Group, Area of Research, Research Interests all can be tagged to further add information to this news item and to allow it to display in other dynamic areas on the site.
Note - there are 3 fields specific to our migrated news items. the simple ‘Body’ field, the migration ID and the Migration Banner. These are there to catch information from our feed but may end up being deprecated once all our news items have been updated.
Publications
Publications, much like jobs and profiles are pulled in automatically - there is no reason to edit these and the editing availability is turned off. To make updates and edits to any publications information it must be done on insideCIRES.
Resources
A multi-faceted content type that allows for uploading various types of resources to the website. Mainly used for specific PDFs that are organized ( e.g. annual reports, spheres, CMC minutes ) but can be extended as needed as those options arise.
Resource Types
Primarily, where do you want this resource to exist on the site - this option must be selected. If you find you have a whole new resource type that must be added CIRES IT must add this in for you and how these should display and where they should display must be decided on.
Thumbnail and Media
For resources, if you have an image you would to use to identify the resource you may use the thumbnail field only. Note it is a straight image upload field. The ‘Media’ field on the other hand is for documents, remote videos if desired.
Metadata
Tag this resource to a research group, give your resource a link, a tag or a date or even a sortable weight. Note that ALL of these option sets are dependent on their display location and type. So there is no need to give a Spheres magazine a ‘resource tag’ if it doesn’t need it and if it doesn’t make sense, for example. Instead, the resource content type is very open ended and must be defined specifically for the type mentioned above.
Slide
Our Slide content type is for one off slides that are not news focused. This allows you to slip a slide in for say, an event in the atrium in front of our other news feed slides.
Please review the Uploading Media documentation for best practices when uploading media to the website.
The title, body and link text will ALL display on the slanted sidebar on the front page slideshow. Note the link should ALWAYS be an internal link, it is poor practice to link away from our website immediately from our front page.
Display Locations
As of writing this documentation we have not implemented external display locations, such as NSIDC but do have the option available. Now though, CIRES ATRIUM SCREENS should be selected.
Spotlight
Our spotlights are to better represent our researchers, our groups and the work they do in a more ‘evergreen’ format outside of blogs or news updates. The page layout of spotlights are similar to that of landing pages, with sidebar paragraphs and standard page ‘paragraphs’ found within the tabs.
Note there are 3 tabs, spotlight, Paragraphs and Metadata
Person Reference
If this spotlight is specific to a person, you may attach them to the ‘person reference’ and this spotlight will display on that users’ profile page.
Please review the Uploading Media documentation for best practices when uploading media to the website.
Map
If you would like to place a pin for this spotlight on our global map you may do so using the map within the metadata tab. Zoom the map out, drag the pin to the desired location and you are all set.
Spotlights are currently being worked on and will be expanded.
Person
This content type as with publications, and jobs should never be updated and has been removed from standard permissions as it is fed in via a feed. All content is controlled via insideCIRES within our profile management tool and administrator by the user themselves. In other words, there is no need to ever update, alter or edit a person’s profile on the CIRES website as it will just be replaced by our feed.
Press Coverage
Press coverage highlights CIRES and CIRES People in the news, linking directly out to that news items. Here CIRES employees can be tagged and show that content on their profiles as well as in the CIRES Newsroom under it's own section.
Title: Title of the News Article
Display on: Marking the persons profile this should display on the CIRES Site
Link to the site, the publication, the date published, and optionally the Link to Publication site.
This content type does not have multiple tabs