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City Wide CMS Tutorial - Resource Sharing Platform

1) Login to the manager (citywidetraining.ca/manager)

citywide manager login

2) On the side menu - navigate to Resource Sharing Platform (ID# 534)

citywide side menu

3) Click the + sign to open pages inside Resource Sharing Platform (ID# 534)

citywide manager +

4) Duplicate any page inside here except for Submit Article (ID# 535)

duplicate resource

5) Once the page is duplicated

Page template variables

  1. Replace the title of the page from Duplicate of ... to the name of the page you are creating
  2. Remove the Duplicate of... alias in the URL alias field and an automatic alias will be created based on your new page name once saved.
  3. Make sure Uses Template is set to Resource Sharing Platform
  4. Scroll down to where it says Template Variables
  5. Check any categories that the article belongs to
  6. Add a description for the article
    1. Here you can add a video by clicking the Tree Icon
    2. Insert the image and then highlight the image
    3. Right-click the image and select Insert/Edit Link
    4. Insert the link of the video (YouTube preferable)
    5. After that right-click the image again but then click the image outside of the popup box (Or highlight the image)
    6. Then click Styles and select Image Play Video
  7. You can also add an External URL to the article - if you do, a button will be displayed on the front-end that links to the URL
  8. You can insert/upload a file to the article - if you do, a button will be displayed on the front-end that will link to the file
  9. Lastly, you can insert an image for the article that is the feature image of the article
  10. Click Save (top right)
  11. Then right-click the article in the side menu and click publish

 

Page template variables

6) To change a category go to the top menu - click Elements, then click Manage Elements, then click Template Variables

template variables

  1. Find and click on LibraryArticleCategories
  2. To add a new category add || behind the last category
  3. Then type the Name of category==a shortened one word name of the category
    1. i.e. ||Videos==videos
  4. Save - the category will now appear in the Resource Sharing Platform template

 

template variables

7) To add that new category on the home page navigate to the page Resource Sharing Platform (ID# 534)

citywide resource front page

  1. Open the page and then open the last Content Block
  2. Create an image that is 1200x200px - use paint or photoshop.
    1. Must size the width to 1200px first then adjust the Canvas to be 200px height
    2. Some of the image will be cut off but the image should be that size
  3. Add a new Span12 by clicking on the +/- beside an existing category
  4. Upload and insert the category image using the Tree icon - same as above
  5. Under the image insert this code:
  6. Replace the bolded word articles with the short name you provided the new category (Step 6.2.1 above) in this example it would be videos
  7. Save the page

 

citywide resource front page

8) To add a new Resource Sharing Platform section, add a new span and copy an entire section that is already existing

copy section

9) Click HTML to edit the anchor tag of that new section (or existing section). Change the first line, id="library-links" to the new category (no spaces)

section id

10) Scroll to the quick links, add the new category as a link, click the link symbol to change the link and enter global/partnerships.html#name-of-id (the same id used in step 9)

change link

11) To add videos, go to a Resource Sharing Platform item and scroll to bottom

videos

  1. If the video is a youtube link use the External URL field
  2. If it is a video file - use the file field, click insert and upload the video (note that ITS has limited the file size to upload, videos that are uploaded should be no more than 20 mb, if it is more please send me an email and I can upload it in the back-end)
  3. Currently the Resource Sharing Platform does not support iframe or embeds