I am really sorry to ask this question which probably has a very straightforward and easy solution, but I was searching like hell and could not find anything... I have some past experience with web design via HTML, but recently I decided to try out Wix Editor.
I am creating a website of a research group, which has a pretty simple design - header (including menu like "research -- people -- open positions -- contact" etc.), main content below, and finally footer (showing only contact details).
Now the problem: when item "people" is clicked in the header menu, I would like the content below to appear like this: on the left side there will be a list of people names divided into few subsections, e.g.: "Postgraduate students" (and below Name #1, Name #2...), and under that "Undergraduate students" (below Name #3, Name #4 etc.). Each name should be a hyperlink, which - when clicked - will show photo and some details about the given person on the right side of that page.
I tried adding new menu (no success), divide the content of the page into two columns, but then I don't know what to do. Of course, I could create the whole content page (including both name list on the left and personal details on the right) manually for each person but then when a new student comes, I will have to update not only the list on the left once (which I would love to) but each list in each of the person's dedicated "complete" pages. Is there any simple way how to implement this?
I hope I managed to describe the problem clearly and did not confuse everything, as I feel totally lost & stupid now. Many thanks for any feedback.
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Here's my scenario. My client's homepage has an introductory paragraph, and then a list of portfolio projects. I need both to be editable.
The list of projects is easy: I create a "Projects" content type and then each entry is fully editable.
But what about the intro paragraph? If I create an "Intro" content type, then my client can create/publish multiple entries of type "Intro", and I don't know how we'd know which one should be displayed.
Alternatively, following the logic in Contentful's Look Book tutorial I could create a container content type called "Home Page", with specific fields/reference fields giving me complete control over what appears. As a bonus, reference fields make sorting of the project list simple.
But what happens when the client creates multiple entries of type "Home Page"? I foresee the same confusion: which entry is the home page that should be displayed on the live site?
Thanks in advance for helping me grok this, or pointing me to info that will help me.
This is a common problem among almost every CMS I've worked with. You have certain content that is "global" and should not appear more than once. It could be things like the top menu, the start page text, settings for news feeds or footer content.
In many traditional CMSs you have the notion of a "StartPage" that often ends up being the container for such settings.
In Contentful you do not have the notion of pages as such, but your idea to create a "Home page" content type would work perfectly well in this situation. What you could do to limit the editors possibility to create more than one "Home page" is to make sure their role does not have access to create them.
Start by creating a "Home page" entry and then limit their role to only be able to create "Projects".
These settings can be found under settings -> roles
i have an intranet (which is my main website) and a several sub-websites, which refers to the departments of the company. I need to add a list with people related to department of the current web-site. The list can be the same view of the SharePoint native search.
I find this component (Search Results), which i was able to add my criterias (like people which department is equals to "HR"), and i get the right results. However, i couldn't find an way to make the view similar to the results of the image above.
Somebody can help me? Thanks
Edit:
I've changed the configurations to use "People Item" display index. Firstly, i had to import a javascript file. Then, even though that i had the right results, the properties aren't filled in the fields of the display item (as is shown in the image below).
I have a list created for the purpose of displaying news. So, the columns are: Title, Content and Created. For example, I'd like the list to let people know when there is a server outage planned.
What I want for the functionality of the web part is to display the title only and only the month/day the news item created in the list. I'd like a picture of a small arrow in the front of the items also (left side).
Example:
"
News Web Part
=> Server outage planned for this Saturday (06/23)
=> Server updates today (06/22)
"
I would like the user to be able to click on the titles of these items and it will go to a page that gives more information (Content column, rich text), instead of pop that AJAX window like what happens by default when you click on a list item.
Does this require Visual Studio? If not, is something like this possible?
Thank you!
I would recommend making a list to store the information that you want to provide to the end user via the SharePoint UI. Once you have your list create a view, Order it by most recently created and limit the number of items displayed to as many as you wish to display to the user.
Add a list web part(XSLTListViewWebPart) and point that at a view you have created.
This will give you something pretty basic visually.
You will then need to look in to XSLT to apply a style to that web part. There are loads of articles on google of how to do this.
You do not need to do this in visual studio, I sometimes just use notepad ++ for small things like this. The above should be enough for you to get started.
Cheers
Truez
I am currently working on a project which requires content to be published onto a view or page depending on a search result criteria. For example: I search through my content for the word dog and this word appears on 4 of 20 pieces of content. I wish to view all of those items on a page that is not the Search Results page, but rather one that displays all the content found, so I can print each piece of content.
I apologize if this post is awkwardly worded. At this moment it is just an idea and I am trying to get a better picture of how to change publishing based on search results to a certain area.
Thank you for your time -- and if anyone wishes to ask follow up questions, I'd be more than willing to help clarify.
You can use a view with exposed filter. Create a view, create a filter criteria there, then in settings - check "Expose this filter to visitors, to allow them to change it". A user will see a form in a view, wich you can also make separate from a view, by setting "exposed form" to "yes" and putting it in a sepparate block.
After much trials-and-errors, I've managed to find how to add new columns in Site Pages of our Sharepoint Foundation 2010.
I'll explain using a field called "Category" I created. The problem I have now is that the only way to add or edit my page categories is to first create a new page, enter its title when asked by the pop-up, enter the content of the page, saving, and then going back in to the page properties. That's the only place I'm seeing my new "category" field.
I've set the field as "required", so it's supposed to be filled, but it doesn't seem to matter.
Moreso, I'd like to see the categories of the page I'm looking at at the bottom, for example, but when I open a page I only see its title and content, nothing else.
Can someone help me understand how to manage this? I'm mostly on my own and SPF2010 is not very well documented for a newbie from what I've seen in my searches.
Thanks in advance.
Is your new column called Category part of your default View or whatever View that you are looking at?
Your question reminds me a precision I didn't wrote about:
In the "All Pages" View (if I understand Sharepoint correctly), which is like a list of all the pages of my site, I've managed to add columns for the new fields I've created.
My wish is to be able to enter data for these new fields at page creation, like when we enter the title of a new page, and/or when I go to edit its content.
Only place so far I found to edit my new fields is in the Page Properties, which requires the page to be created first, or in this "All Pages" View where I added my fields. I'd like to categorize my pages as I create them, which could save us lots of time since we're starting our documentation project and nothing has been done yet...