changing “people” display

Request Type:

General Assistance

Forums:

Author:

Paul Sabin

Issue/Request:

I would like to change the display on the Yale Environmental History site to feature graduate students, post-docs, and also highlight recent graduates (and not just faculty as it is set up now).

Could you tell me how to switch the settings to do that? I have the people module installed already, so I think it may be something relatively simple.

Also, do all the people who are added to the site have to have passwords for their information, when it is being added by an administrator?

And how would one add someone who is not a CAS person anymore– such as a recent graduate?

Carris Toupin on October 4, 2016:

Hi Paul;

First, I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Carris Toupin and I am part of the of ITS, Campus Community Technologies group and I have been asked to assist you with your YaleSites Forum question(s). In order to be able to see how your site is built and to best advise you on the changes you requested, I will need to be added as an Administrator on your site, http://environmentalhistory.yale.edu/. My NetID is ct546. Please let me know when this is done so that I may further research the situation.

Thank you in advance for your help and assistance.

Regards,

Carris

Zachary Schwartz on October 10, 2016:

Hi Paul,

I’m assisting Carris with your request, I believe I’ve configured the people page and related subpages to appear the way you wanted on your dev site.

There was a separate basic page that was redirected to from the people/graduate-students page, so I changed the page address and made it a sub-page of the graduate student listing. It is displayed beneath the “graduate students” link in the sidebar menu.

Please look over the changes and let me know if you require any other changes before we put it on the production site.

Best,

-Zachary Schwartz

Zachary Schwartz on October 11, 2016:

Dear Zachary,

Thanks for your help configuring the people page.

A few details I wonder if you could fix:

1) the faculty bio sentence is not showing up anymore in the same way on the Dev site as in the regular site. Could you put it back in so that it shows up?

http://environmentalhistory.yale.edu/people/faculty

2) I would prefer that the graduate students NOT show up at the bottom of the faculty page, but rather only on the graduate student page. It’s fine for the student bios to show up next to their photo. I am going to ask them to shorten them to a paragraph and make them consistent.

3) we can hide that stand-alone page of additional graduate student info, which I am not going to use right now.

4) Could we add a stand-alone basic page for “Recent Alumni” that has a link equal to the Faculty, Graduate Students on the left side?

5) Could you tell me how to activate a “postdoctoral fellows page” if we have postdocs?

Thanks!

Paul

Hi Paul,

I changed the settings for the “People” view so that the faculty bios displayed in the same column as their titles, which seems to have fixed that issue. Regarding your second question, the graduate students are appearing at the bottom of the page because it’s a generic “people” page instead of the faculty page. If you’d like, I can just have the menu link lead directly to the people/faculty page instead of the main people page. It sounds like that’s what you want, but I wanted to be absolutely sure.

I’ve hidden the additional grad student info pages; they haven’t been deleted but they have been unpublished, meaning they’re still accessible to an administrator in the event that you need them. And I created a new basic page for “recent alumni”, which I’ve added to the sidebar menu in the “people” section.

For your last question, creating a postdoctoral fellows page is fairly simple. When a new person is added to the site, “postdocs and fellows” is one of the available people types that they can be assigned. In the same way that a new user can be assigned the people type “faculty” or “graduate student”, you can click the checkbox for “postdocs and fellows” to have them show up under that header on the main people listing. Clicking that header will bring you to a page listing only the postdocs. This can then be added to sidebar menu by placing your cursor over the sidebar menu and clicking the gear icon, clicking “List Links”, and then clicking “add link” and adding “people/postdocs-and-fellows” in the link path field. In the Parent Link drop-down menu, select the page “People”. You can change the order in which these links are listed in the sidebar menu by dragging the crossed-arrows symbol next to the link in the “list links” menu. Normally I would I have just done this myself and left you these instructions for future use, but it doesn’t look like any users currently have the people type “postdocs and fellows”.

I hope this addressed all of your concerns, please let me know how you want me to approach the people and faculty page issue and I’ll fix that for you as quickly as I can.

Best,

-Zach

Zachary Schwartz on October 11, 2016:

Dear Zachary,

Thank you very much. Yes, please have the People page link directly to the faculty page as you describe, with the menu on the side to get to grad students and recent alumni.

Then I think I’ll be all set.

How do I get it live on the published site? And does the data change going from Dev to published?

I need to add some more data this afternoon before it gets published.

Paul

Hi Paul,

I removed the “people” page from the menu and put faculty on the main menu in its place. To preserve a sensible menu hierarchy, I made “Faculty” the parent link; “Graduate Students” and “Recent Alumni” are now “children” of that link. When you add the “postdocs and fellows” page to the menu, you’ll want to make the parent link “faculty” instead of “people”.

To make your changes take effect on the live site, you need to go submit a Go-Live request for your Dev site, which you can submit here: http://yalesites.yale.edu/go-live-request. Just fill out the form and check “move my site to production”.

You can make changes directly to the live site, if necessary. However, we do strongly recommend using the dev site to implement any significant changes to site content or design, so that you can ensure that nothing breaks.

Let me know if you have any more questions.

-Zach

Zachary Schwartz on October 11, 2016:

Dear Zachary,

This looks pretty good.

Ideally, what I would like is for the top header to read “People,” but for it to jump to the Faculty page as the default. On the left side, I’d like there to be options: Faculty, Graduate Students, Recent Alumni.

If there could be a drop-down menu on “People” too, that would be good.

I don’t understand what happens to “go live” now– what happens to the content that is on the Live site? Does it get over-ridden by the development site? The content on the Development site is out of date.

I’m at 203-848-7199 until 3:30 if easier to explain by telephone.

Paul

Hi Paul,

I’m sorry, I was actually mistaken about the process of implementing changes from a dev site to a site that is already live. I’m being told that the changes made to the dev site need to be manually deployed on the main site, so I’m currently working on that. I’m sorry for the mix-up. I’ll go ahead and implement the additional corrections you made directly onto the main site as well. Keep in mind, a drop-down menu will work for every page with sub-pages, so several other main-menu items will be affected if I deploy the module for the drop-down.

Let me know if you made a go-live request and I’ll make sure the request is stopped.

Sorry for the mix-up,

-Zach

Zachary Schwartz on October 13, 2016:

Dear Zachary,

I never made a go live request so it does not need to be canceled.

Did you make the changes on the Live site? I don’t see them– would be grateful if you could when you have a chance.

I think it should be fine to have drop down menus for the various menu items.

Except for both the people page and the public events page the default page (faculty, and upcoming events) needs to be first in the drop down menu.

Thanks, Paul

Hi Paul, I just finished making the changes you requested and I’ve taken the live site out of maintenance mode. Let me know if everything looks and functions the way you wanted.

Best,

-Zach

Zachary Schwartz on October 13, 2016:

Zachary,

This looks great! Thanks so much.

One odd minor item– I have tried uploading a photo multiple times to the Keri Lambert profile and it keeps getting rejected and won’t post.

Any idea why that would be?

Paul

Hi Paul,

I’m glad you’re happy with the site! That issue you mentioned is strange–I’ll take a look at it now.

-Zach

Zachary Schwartz on October 13, 2016:

Hi Paul,

I was able to upload a placeholder image just now, could you show me the error message you’re receiving?

-Zach

Zachary Schwartz on October 13, 2016:

I think it’s something about the image, but I don’t see anything wrong with it (attached). Any chance you could try?

Paul

Hi Paul, the issue is that the image exceeds the maximum allowed filesize of 1MB. This photo is a 1.75MB image in a PNG format. I was able to significantly downsize the image by saving it as a .jpg, which is a more compressed image format. In general, these images aren’t going to display large enough on this site for a higher-quality image type to be necessary, so if the images are too large to upload, changing their file extension to a jpg is probably the best solution. I’ll upload the smaller image on her profile now.

-Zach