Widgets

Authoring widgets

  • WYSIWYG
    • Suggestions:
      • transfer text content from an existing site - maintain the markup but remove inline styling
      • insert an image that is not currently in the media library
      • build a table; later edit the width/headings/border properties of the table
      • insert jump links to content elsewhere on the page
      • embed 3rd party content (video/map/visualisation, etc.) using an iframe (either the option in the toolbar or using source view): e.g. 1; e.g. 2; e.g.3
  • Adv accordion & Standard Accordion: e.g.1
  • Adv tab & Standard Tab: e.g.1

Advanced authoring

  • Banner: e.g.1; e.g.2
  • Reusable content:
    • Create an item content (e.g. one or several widgets in a particular configuration) and use it in multiple places on your site. When you update the reusable item, the changes will be visible wherever it is being displayed on the site.

Listing widgets

  • Publications listing: e.g. 1; e.g. 2
    • Suggestions:
      • setup a Publications listing to display 1 or more author's/authors' work (you'll need the SSO ID of someone with publications in Symplectic); change the filtering options
  • Vacancy listing: e.g. 1; e.g. 2
    • Suggestions:
      • list the jobs vacancies for a department and its sub-departments

Galleries

  • Carousel: e.g.1; e.g.2
  • Slideshow adv: e.g. 1
    • Suggestions for the Grid, List, Carousel, Slideshow widgets:
      • Create a listing to display all Articles on the site; then change the filtering options to show only blog articles, press releases or calls for papers. If taxonomies have been setup for Article content types, try adding taxonomy terms to article content then filtering by terms, or add taxonomy filter options to the top of the listing
      • Create a listing by handpicking pages from the site
      • Create a listing whose items link to external pages
      • Create a listing to display RSS feed items
  • Image gallery: e.g.1
  • Image gallery adv: e.g.1

Forms

Other

  • Metadata display: e.g.1; e.g.2
  • Share social media icons (Facebook, Twitter, Email)
  • Social media links
  • Taxonomy terms display: e.g.1

 

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Display Widgets and their Item Styles