When a new faculty or staff employee is added, a profile page will need to be created. The easiest method is to copy an existing page. Note that this is not the only way to create a profile page, but it is definitely the quickest.
Note that the examples used in this article are very simplistic, and your profiles will be much more involved.
- Below is the profile page that is going to be copied.
- In the cms, select the professor-test-1 file in the treeview and select Copy from the More dropdown menu on the right.
- Change the file name to the new faculty/staff member's name. In this case, the professor's name has been changed to professor-test 2. Once the change has been submitted via the Copy button, the new page is created.
- The profiles folder now has 2 pages.
- The professor-test 2 file is opened from the treeview and Edit is selected to change the information.
- The Edit window is displayed with changes being made to the title, the Last Name, and the Title.
- Once edits are made, the changes can be submitted using the Preview Draft button and then submitting the page.
- The profile still has the title as Professor Test 1 even though it was changed on the edit screen above.
- If you go back into editing the profile, there is information in the Metadata tab that is not able to be seen or changed on the Content window. Professor Test 1 had Metadata in both the Display Name field as well as the Description field. Metadata is used on a webpage to boost SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to increase search rankings.
When information is in the Display Name field on the Metadata tab, it overwrites the Display field that was changed in #6 above.
- So, both the Display Name and the Description need to be updated.
- The profile page now looks as expected.
