Before Beginning: Create Individual Profiles
The Profiles component is a list of multiple profiles. If you are editing a page and see this component on it, you may want to add a new name to the list. Before you do this, you must create and publish the profile for the individual. To do that, see the following documentation:
- Creating and Editing a Profile
- Publishing Content
Unless the Profile has already been created by someone else, until you have completed both of those steps, you will not be able to add a person to the list of profiles in the Profiles component.
Adding a Profiles Component
The Profiles component is used to add teasers of multiple profiles to a page. This is most often used on a "Contact Us" or "About Us" page for an office or department, but it could also be used to show a particular contact person(s) at the end of a subject-specific page. For instance, if there is an expert in your office who handles questions about a policy, you could add their profile at the end of that policy page using a Profiles component.
To add Profiles to your page, select “Profiles” from the drop down menu underneath Component Type, then select “Add Another Component”.
Once you’ve added Profiles as a component on your page, you will be presented with an interface allowing you to add a Heading and a Blurb, though neither field is required. You may want to use these fields to group sets of profiles together. You can add multiple Profiles components to a page and each one could list the members of a team or group within your area. The Heading and Blurb fields could then be used to identify the group.
Adding Profiles
As mentioned previously, before adding a profile to the Profiles component, you need to create the Profile as a piece of content on its own. Once you have done that and published the Profile, it will be available to add to the list of Profiles in this component. You can begin typing the Full Name used in a Profile into the Profile field to see if one already exists for that person. If you are on the Offices and Services site you will also see the name of the office associated with that profile. Select the name from the dropdown to use it in this Profiles component.
You have the option to hide contact fields from your Profiles list for each Profile. This will only hide the information from your list. When people click through to the individual profiles they will see that information, if it exists, on the Profile page. You also have the option to add a blurb to your Profiles list for each person on it. This can be used to highlight areas of expertise or other information about the person that may help select them from a list of people to contact.
To add another profile to the list, click the Add Profile button.
Removing Profiles
To remove a profile from the list, click the down arrow to the right of that person's name and select Delete. You will be asked to confirm the deletion. This action only removes the profile from your Profiles list. The individual Profile page will still remain published. If that person has left Middlebury, click on Content in your editor toolbar, search for their Profile in the list of content, and delete or archive it.
Displaying Profiles
After you are done adding, editing, and removing Profiles, click the Save button at the bottom of the page. You will now see your Profiles component in the content region of the page.
