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In this tutorial we'll learn how to create a People Profile content type.
To get started we'll enter the Workbench area and select the create/manage content tab.
Next, we'll select People profiles from our menu listing
and add a new profile page.
Right away we can see that the Name, Affiliation and Title or position information are required.
For this example I'm creating a profile for a Dr. Smith.
Affiliation is automatically defaulted to University of Waterloo, which is fine for this example,
and Dr. Smith's title or position is Professor.
Next, we'll select a photo that will appear, and in this example I'm going to use a 'small Dr. Smith' and upload.
The Alt text can simply be 'Photo of Dr. Smith'. And next I see we have the option of inserting the photo.
If we select Insert this profile photo will appear in the body or main content area of the profile.
This is fine, however, for this example, I'd prefer to use a different image of Dr. Smith.
I'm just going to delete that image and scroll down so that I can add the remaining content.
We'll copy and paste that in to place. This title I'd like to appear as a Heading 2, there we are.
As with any image that we upload, we want to ensure that our cursor is in the correct spot.
Next we'll simply scroll down to upload an image, we'll choose the file that we're looking for
and select upload.
Great, now this can stay in the original size because I've already cropped and resized the image outside of the WCMS.
I'm simply going to add my Alt text 'Photo of Dr. Smith' and select OK.
That looks pretty good, and as you can see, it's a similar yet different image of Dr. Smith that we're using.
The next thing we'll do is select the Profile Type. Dr. Smith is Faculty.
And here we see we also have the option of publishing his profile content to the main page.
Just a note, if more than one profile is promoted to the front page, profiles will rotate when the page is refreshed.
The next thing I want to do is set a URL path setting, and I'd like to create my own alias, so we'll unclick the Generate automatic URL alias box.
My URL alias is going to be 'dr-smith'. All lower case with a dash to separate the words.
We'll Save the work
and now we'll be able to view a draft of the profile we've created.
Everything looks good so at this point you can decide whether or not it will remain as a draft, be sent for review, or published.
We'll publish for this example and return to the Zoology home page.
And we can see now that Dr. Smith's information is listed on the front page.