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Overview
This document shows unit administrators or web committee members how to create labs on their Drupal web sites.
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Labs
If your department has labs, you may find this content type useful. Labs can reference Personnel and general Research Areas if you like. Articles are used for time-sensitive content, like news, press releases, or blog posts. For example, a page about a faculty award, a page with news about the department, or a page listing graduating doctoral students are considered articles. An article A lab is simply a title , with some text in the bodyAbout this Lab section. Images can be embedded within the body of the page ; or one can also have a main image, a banner image (across the top), and/or a gallery of images. Specific personnel, mentioned in the article, can be linked (so that the article automatically links to their directory page at the bottom, and the directory page will link to articles mentioning that personnel). The type of news or audience can be indicated, which will make filtering by audience possible. Tags may be included, so that articles can be sorted by tag. Depending on your unit, research areas can also be linked (as with personnel).
Step 1: Create
new labNew Lab
First click on 'Content.'
Then 'Add content'
Then click on 'Labs'
You should get to this page:
Step 2: Fill in
basic required relevant informationBasic Required Relevant Information
The minimum this page needs to have is Title and About this Lab. See below.
Step 3: Fill in
optional fieldsOptional Fields
There are lots of also optional fields you might want to use. Please see below for an explanation for all of the optional fields for labs.
Lab Summary
When you add a lab, it will be shown on a page listing all of the labs. That page will show a truncated version of the text in the About this Lab section as a summary. If you would prefer to write your own summary, click "Edit Summary" to create that summary. See below:
Upload Image
You can also upload an image for the lab. Click on Browse to select an image from your computer.
Once you have uploaded the image, add a description in the 'Alternative Text'.
Click on 'Crop Image' to change how the image will appear on the website.
The "Crop 3:2 Spotlight" is how it will appear if it shows up in spotlights. This cropping is particularly handy to avoid having important parts of the image cut out. You will simply scroll over the lighter area and move it to the area you would like to display.
Adding Lab Site
You can also add a link to the Lab site(s) related to the lab
To link to a lab site, type any part of the lab name, and the list will autopopulate. Simply choose the lab site you want to link the lab to.
After selecting a lab site, it will look like this:
, if one is available.
For this example, I am linking to an external sample lab site.
Associate Research Areas
If you have research areas defined, you can link to research area(s) associated with the lab:
This field also autocompletes will autopopulate as you type :
After selecting a research area, it will look like this:
Upload Image
You can also upload an image for the article (or a banner, or even a gallery of images). Basic image is a rectangular presentation, banner is a wide image presentation, and gallery is a group of photos.
Link to Research Areas
Schedule article to post in future
You can also schedule the article's publication for the future; this is an option on the editing sidebar:
When expanded, it and you can choose from the existing pages:
When selected, the research area looks like this:
Step 3: Save
After you have saved the page, you will see the visual page. In this example, we linked to a personnel page an external lab site and a research area, but again this is optional. Here is how it will look.
Also see Adding images Images to contentContent for assistance adding an image to an article. a lab.
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