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There are two main steps to making a campus building page: building the taxonomy and making the page.

Step 1: Campus building taxonomy

A taxonomy is the list of terms (tags) visitors use to filter your campus building pages. There are two taxonomies used for the campus buildings pages: “Facility Features” and “Department”. Follow these instructions to create new taxonomy terms:

1. Use the admin menu to navigate to one of the following:

   • “Structure ￫ Taxonomy ￫ Campus Building - Department”

   • “Structure ￫ Taxonomy ￫ Campus Building - Facility Features)”

2. Review the existing terms to verify there isn’t a functionally identical term available.

   • If there is, use that term or edit it as needed.

3. Select "Add Term". 

4. Enter the name for the term; ignore the other sections of the form. A few notes:

   • Use uniform capitalization methods for all your terms (i.e. sentence case, title case, etc).

   • For facility features, only create new terms that are general enough to apply to multiple pages; best practice is to have no more than 10-15 terms.

5. Save the term

Step 2: make the campus buildings page

1. Use the admin menu to navigate to “Content ￫ Add Content ￫ Campus Building"

2. Complete the form

3. Check the Published box at the bottom of the page

4. Save the page

Form fields

Name: The actual name of the building. There is a separate section for the building code, so this should be the actual name (such as "Richard and Maurine Neuberger Center"). 

Address: This appears above the map. Hint: This displays the exact text you enter, so plan ahead of time how you want addresses to appear (just street address vs. street, city vs street, city, state, etc).  

Image: Click Select Add Media to select an image to add. Review the images documentation for more information. 

Building Location: In the Enter a location text box, start typing an address. Keep typing until the correct one appears, then select that address. 

About the Building: This is a basic text entry field with "About the Building" as a visible title. Plan ahead of time what kind of content you want in this area. 

Building Occupants: This is a basic text entry field with "Building Occupants" as a visible title. The planned design just listed occupants with each one linked to the department's site. It will likely duplicate the Campus Building - Department taxonomy for this page. 

Building Features: This is a basic text entry field with "Building Features" as a visible title. The content will be similar to the Campus Building - Facility Features taxonomy for this page. Plan ahead of time what kind of content you want in this area and how descriptive you would like to be. 

Building Maps: These are PDFs of floorplans and other relevant internal maps. You can add more than one (once you add one, the option to add another appears). Hint: The title of the uploaded document is what displays for visitors. As such, you want to make sure the title of the uploaded document is user friendly (i.e. Floorplan-SMSU is better than SMSU-All Plans_6). 

Building Details: This is a basic text entry field with "Building Details" as a visible title. Plan ahead of time what kind of content you want in this area. 

Building Code: The actual building code (i.e. RMNC). This is used in the search and filtering area; it is not visible on the page itself. 

Department: This pulls from the Campus Building - Department taxonomy. Start typing a taxonomy term (it has to have already been made), and a list of options will appear. This does not actually display on the page itself, it's only used in search and filtering. 

Facility Features: This pulls from the Campus Building - Facility Features taxonomy. Start typing a taxonomy term (it has to have already been made), and a list of options will appear. This does not actually display on the page itself, it's only used in search and filtering.

After your group has been created, you can start creating items to add to that group.

To create an item:

1. Using the Administrative Menu, add a Gallery Group Item ("Content" ￫ "Add Content" ￫ "Gallery Group Item")

2. The fields to complete are:

   • Item Title: This is the page title

   • Item Subtitle: Displays beneath the page title on the item page. In the Gallery Group page (where it shows all the items in the group), it displays above the page title for this item's thumbnail. 

   • Group Title: Start typing in the name of the group you want this item associated with - the names of existing groups will auto-populate for you to select from

   • Date: An optional field if you want a specific date associated with the item.

   • Term: A required field that displays on the item page.

   • Content Title: Heading that displays directly above the Item Content text.

   • Item Content: Paragraph text that is specific to this item; displays directly below the Content Title. 

   • Image: Select one or more images to represent this item. If more than one is selected, the images will display as a carousel. You must also add caption information to each image. Important: check "Featured Image" to select which image will display as the primary thumbnail for this item.

   • Featured Item Tags: Tags used to see items from different groups with similar topics, or used to feature particular items based on topic. These tags must be created prior to adding them to your items - instructions are in "Step 4 - Create an item tag". To add more than one tag, click on select “Add another item” under this field. You can save the item prior to adding tags to it.

3. Check the “Published” box.

4. Save your item.

Each item should have one or more tags associated with it. This is separate from the groups in that these tags are topical and used to help visitors find projects from different groups that have similar topics.

This is an area where you’ll want to consider strategy. Tags should not be so granular in topic that only one or two items will apply to them. Rather, you’ll want general tags that many items can be associated with. Suggestions for terms include: “Piano”, “Mixed Media”, “Award Winners”, or “Senior Projects”.

To view existing terms and create a new one:

1. Using the Administrative Menu, view the Gallery Item Tags ("Structure" ￫ "Taxonomy" ￫ "Portfolio Project Tags")

2. Review the existing terms to see if something new is needed for the items you’re planning on creating. If so, then click on select “Add term” to create a new term.

3. The fields to complete are:

   • Name: The name of this tag. It will be visible to the public, so should be clear, concise, and topic based.

   • None of the other fields need to be completed.

4. Save the term and add it to the appropriate Portfolio Project Items.