degree appears twice

Request Type: 
General Assistance
Forums: 
Managing and Creating Content
Author: 
Yvonne Manning-Jones
Issue/Request: 

The degree appears twice: after the name and also above the address. i would like to prevent the latter.

Carris Toupin on August 11, 2016:

Good Day Yvonne;

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 or reproduce the situation, I will need to be added as an Administrator on your site, http://dev.haskinslabs.org/. 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

Carris Toupin on August 18, 2016:

Hi Yvonne;

I think the double degree listing is fixed. Take a look and make sure it looks the way you want it to.

This is how I did it:

  1. I went to an individuals page (doesn’t matter who) like http://dev.haskinslabs.org/people/heather-bortfeld#
  2. I clicked edit on that page
  3. When the edit overlay comes up, I clicked on the Manage Display tab
  4. I went to the row that has the Degree field and changed the drop down box for Format from Plain Text to Hidden.
  5. Now the field is not showing up because it is hidden.
  6. The Degree still shows up next to the person’s name after a comma because:
    • In the view for People Page, under fields,
    • Where is says User: name
    • If you clicked on that, you would see an overlay that has a check box for ‘Rewrite Results’
    • In the box below that is a Text Box with this information in it:  [name][field_degree]
    • This is code to tell the site to put the degree next to to the name.

I hope this helped.

Let us know via the forum if you need anything else.

Best Regards,

Carris