Learn about making and editing news, events, and profiles to display either only on your site or to syndicate throughout PDX.edu.
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What is Syndication?
Syndication is the site used to create and export content shared to multiple PDX.edu sites, including top-level PDX.edu. Syndication is primarily used for staff and faculty profiles, to ensure they display in the Faculty and Staff Directory, though shared news and events may also be created on that site.
Academic Program (AP) Pages are also edited in Syndication, though these are managed by the AP Page Management group. Learn more about what that group does on UComm’s Web Communications page.
A few things to note:
Content created in Syndication will export about two hours after publishing.
Only create news and events in Syndication that must export to other sites. Make news and events specific to your site directly on your site - this content will not export to other sites (including top-level).
All syndicated content must be edited in syndication; edits made within your own site will not update other copies of the content.
Never link directly to content in syndication. Double-check the URLs to make sure they do not contain “ondeck.pdx.edu/syndication”; use the URLs that are created when the content is on a PDX.edu site.
You cannot set a focus point for images in Syndication as the focus is not retained when the content is imported to your site. Use these dimensions to customize your images before uploading to Syndication:
News Article Image: 945 x 520 pixels
Event Image: 455 x 325 pixels
Profile Secondary Image: 320 x 223 pixels
If a piece of content is syndicated to your site that you do not want to be displayed on your site, simply unpublish it. This will prevent the content from being re-importing in a published view.
Creating and managing news and events
News and events should be built directly on your site unless they’re intended to be shared among other sites. This will ensure they publish promptly for your visitors. If a news article or event needs to be shared on multiple sites, it should be created in Syndication.
Managing news articles
Managing events
Syndicating news and events
Creating and managing profiles
Profiles for staff or faculty should be created in Syndication; this allows these profiles to export to the Faculty and Staff Directory. If you are creating a profile for a different purpose, such as a student profile or a profile for an affiliate, then create the profile directly on your site.
Staff and faculty profiles
Staff and faculty profiles are created using a combination of directory information from the Odin Account Manager (OAM) and from syndication. If someone has a profile built, it will display in the Faculty & Staff Directory. If they do not, their OAM directory information will display a message that the biography is unavailable.
Other profiles
Profiles for anyone who is not a staff or faculty member should be created directly on your site.
How to display profiles on your site
Automatically create a list of profiles
There is an automatically built profile listing page (example profile list). This page displays all published profiles imported to your site. You cannot control the order they're displayed or the grouping.
You can create links to this page in the navigation menu by adding one in the PSU Primary Menu settings. You can also link to this page using CTA buttons or other links.
The URL for the page will always be pdx.edu/SITE/faculty-profile-search.
Manually create a list of profiles
You can manually create a profile list using a landing page and paragraph blocks, instead of using the automated one.
To link to a person's profile or directory listing:
Imported profiles: Find the profile in your site's Content listing, then get the URL from the View tab of the profile. Example profile.
Directory listing: If a profile has not been made, you can link to their directory listing. The URL is pdx.edu/SITE/profile/exists?id=ODIN - replace SITE with your site's URL and ODIN with the person's Odin.
Feature a specific profile
You can feature an individual profile using the "Feature: Profile" paragraph block. Add that paragraph block to a page, then type the title of a published profile on your site into the text field.