How do I create a news/event entry?

Answer

1. Open the News or the Events folder, respectively. Then open the folder of your institute.

2. If you want your news to be shown on the department's page as well as on your institute's page, skip to step 4.

3. If you want your news to be shown only on your institute's page. Open the subfolder 'local news' .

4. Click on the icon 'New record' .

5. Select Type 'News' and enter the needed information. The fields 'Start', 'Stop' indicate the duration in which the news is shown in the frontend.

6. If your record is an event click the flag 'Event Info' and check the box 'Event' .

Additional Information

If you want to understand the relation between the Sysfolders, where the News datasets are stored, and the page, where they will be displayed, go to the last Question of this chapter. This will be helpful if you want to create a new page showing a different category of news.

How do I show news/events only on the institute page?

Answer

See in the first Question (How do I create a news/event entry? ) step 3.

How do I show news/events on the institute page and on the departments home page?

Answer

See in the first Question (How do I create a news/event entry? ) step 2.

An event entry is not visible in front end. How can I make it visible?

Answer

1. If you want to edit an event, you see the following view. First of all check, if you didn't hide your event. The box 'Hide' must not be checked.

2. Click on the flag 'Event Info'

3. Make sure that you check the box 'Event' .

A publication doesn't show up in the author's publication list.

Solution

1. If you want to put up a publication, you are confronted with the following form:

2. Write all authors of the publication into the field 'Authors' . This are the people which show up in the description of the publication.

3. If the author has a personal page on your page, you should add him to the field 'Authors (NEW)' as well. Otherwise this publication will not show up in his personal publications list. In this example, Fröhlich is the only one with a personal page on the department page.

I published the information about a lecture and want the names of the lecturers to link to their personal pages.

Solution

1. Make sure that you set the relevant people in the corresponding fields in the editing form of your lecture.

2. Close the editing form and click on the folder where your lecture data is stored. Create a new content by clicking on the icon 'Create new record' in the uppermost icon bar. A tree of possible content types opens:

3. Choose 'Backlinks for people/studies/research' . The following form opens:

4. Choose the folder where your plugin which displays the data of your lecture is implemented as backlink.

5. Save and close. Your folder should now look similar to this. Important are the marked content records.

I don't understand how the data stored in the sysfolders (e.g. People, Publications, etc.) is connected to the pages.

Solution

1. If you select the 'List' View you see a page tree similar to this:

The icons in the upper part represent pages while the icons in the lower part represent so called sysfolders. A page is what you probably already know: a container for page content. (More Information: Pages)

A sysfolder is a folder where datasets are stored, which are used by extensions. Extensions are embedded in pages as plugins.

2. See for example the D-ITET News page. If you click on the page, you see that it contains, among others, a Plugin called 'News' . (Indented its alternative language complement.)

3. It's properties look like showed in the following image. As you can see, its Type is a 'Plugin' .

4. By clicking on the flag 'Plugin' we see which plugin is chosen and its properties. Accordingly, in this example it is the News 'plugin' . The most important property is the starting point. It gives the plugin the information where to look for the datasets which will then bi shown on the page.