Projects

Creating or editing a project

A new project can be created by:

• selecting Projects in the left Collections sidebar (or by going to the Projects collection link directly), and then by selecting the "New Project" button.
• you will be prompted to log in to the CMS if you are not yet logged in.

An existing project can be edited by selecting the name of the Project page from the Projects collection listing.

The project editor

By default, the project will be shown in a two column layout, with English on the left and French on the right:

If you wish to view a preview in the right column, you can click the "Toggle localization" button on the upper right (an icon of a document). This will hide the French (right) column and replace it with a preview of the English (left) column. To switch back to content in the right column, click the "Toggle localization" button again.

Important notes about localization

• English content is always required.
• French project pages will be given a prefix of /fr/ and the same URL as the English project. For example:
  /projects/example-project
/projects/fr/example-project
• If you want to preview French content, you can change the language of the left column using the "Writing in" dropdown menu and then hide the right column as described above. However, you should always edit using English on the left and French on the write so that you can compare the content across both languages and ensure consistency between them.

Project editor fields

• Project name: The name of the project which will appear at the top of the project's page and in the Projects listing on the site. Note: main project pages and its sub pages should have matching project names including capitalization and punctuation.
• Override default project URL: Use this field to override the default URL. Default URL is '/projects/[project-name]/'. Enter a string including '/' (slash) at start and end (i.e. '/example/url/'). This must be unique.
• Body title: The prominent text that will appears before the body content. This can be a more descriptive text string describing the contents of the page or the project. For example: "Intelligent User Interfaces for Virtual Healthcare" is the project name, and "Reducing barriers to virtual healthcare" can be the body title.
• Project short name: The short project name is used to generate labels for text links. For example: "IUI project" is the short project name for "Intelligent User Interfaces for Virtual Healthcare" is the project name. Resulting text links will appear as "More about IUI project". Short names are not required for sub pages (see: Creating sub pages for projects).
• Parent page: This field is only used for project sub pages. Select the page that is to be the parent to this sub page. This is the link between the sub page to its parent page. Note: the list shows the Body Title of all possible parents. See: Creating sub pages for projects.
• Sub page order: This field is only used for project sub pages. By default sub pages appear listed in alphabetical order. If you want one or more sub pages to appear in a different order, each and every sub page belonging to the same parent should get numbered (otherwise the results may not be predictable). See: Creating sub pages for projects.
• Thumbnail image: An image representing the project. Suggested aspect ratio / resolution is 680x494px. Images not fitting the aspect ratio will appear stretched.
• Thumbnail image alt text: Short alt text for the project image. Otherwise "Thumbnail image for [Project Name]" will be used by default.