Santa Clara University

Content Well Elements

Profile

Use the Profile element to create a personal profile for students, faculty, staff, or alumni. Once created, the Profile data can be used in multiple ways. The element data can be edited and displayed as a full profile on a specified page, or you can select a group of profiles and display them as a list. Within the list, the profile name will link to the full profile display, on the page where the profile data was created. A right-column version of Profile element is also available.

A Profile consists of the following pieces of data:

• First, Middle, and Last name (Last name is required)
• Suffix (optional)
• Organization (at SCU)
• Title(s)
• Group (Faculty, Student, Staff, Administrator, Alumni, Other)
• Short description (for summary display)
• Biography (can include formatted text and images)
• Phone, fax, e-mail, office location, room number, office hours
• Photo and caption
• Personal home page URL

Here are some examples of how the Profile element can be used. In the first example, the full profile of a faculty member is displayed. This is how you would typically display all of the profile content on the page where the profile data was entered. In the second example, we're applying the "Content Well Profile Feature" rendering to the element data. This formatting includes the image, profile name, short description, and a link to the full profile page. This element could be used on another page elsewhere in your site. You can also select more than one profile and randomly select one for display as a feature. See the right column sidebar instructions on this page for directions on selecting one profile through layout property settings.

In the third example, we're selecting several profiles and displaying them in a summary table, including a thumbnail image, name, short description, and a link to the full profile.

Creating a Profile

To create a profile, follow these steps:

1. Create a new page.  The element data can be selected for display on any page, but can only be edited on the page where the data was first entered.
2. In the content well of the new page, click the "insert new element" text and select "Profile" from the Content Well element category.
3. Click the element data icon for the profile element (the pencil icon), and select Enter Element Data.
4. Fill in the Profile data and save the page.
5. The default display method for the Profile Element is "Full Profile", but you can change this to the summary view by modifying the element properties Custom Render Handler selection.  Typically, you would use the default Full Profile render handler unless you are displaying a list of profiles.

Selecting Profile Data

In the Full Profile example shown above, we're displaying element data that was created on a page in the Music Department Web site.  To select from the Profile data that has already been created, follow these steps.

1. Click the "insert new element" link on the page where the data is to be displayed.
2. Select "Profile" from the Content Well element category.
3. Click the element editing icon (pencil) and select the Select Element Data option.
4. Click the "render results dynamically..." option, then click the "Filter" tab.
5. The filter form allows you to select the profile data to be displayed. In the example above, we've changed the filter selection to select data where the Last Name field contains "Brunson".  In the example that follows, we have selected data where the organization is "Music Department".
6. After the filtered data selection is displayed, click "OK". Note: If you first click "update", the filter selection will be displayed in a large table; you may need to scroll right and down to find the "OK" button.
7. The selected data will now be displayed in your page.  If you have selected multiple records, you may want to change from the default "Full Profile" render handler to the "Summary" version.  The following example uses the Summary render handler.