Info Blocks

Image Galleries

Galleries have been updated to info blocks to provide more direct control over image placement and better stability.  Version control and true text editors will give you an easier time making content and adding images to your galleries.

Info block setup

When creating or changing an info block the type must be set as Image Gallery. 

You have up to 50 records per file but you can set the editor to be 1 - 10 up to 1 - 50 in sets of 10.

Image galleries are not dynamic content, there is no presentation interface to configure, all display options are done via styles.

Regular Gallery (Not A Showcase)

The first option for you in the gallery or showcase type is a Regular Gallery.  This type of gallery will have a lightbox feature that is automatically added to your pages.  The content that is typed into the content block is going to show up in the lightbox for most gallery style types.  

Sorting Options

Regular galleries will default to sorting based on the editor order 1 - 50.  If you need to have more control over your content you can choose to sort by the Title: in the content block.  This means you need to write some text and set it to the style Content Main Title.  That will help the sorting to A-Z sort your images.

If you use this make sure that the text makes sense.  Since content titles are shown in the light box it will display to the end user if they click on the image.

Showcase Options

Choose any showcase type (Simple, Details, Events, or Details and Events) to open the showcase options. The options are orgnaized under the four main buttons to help reduce clutter on the page.  You will not lose data by going between each button.

Basic Configuration

The two options here are for the Collection Name and using a Link Button.

The collection name helps to group your showcase under a standard group name.  This can be whatever you want and when you have multiple files that use the same collection name the end user will only see one group.

The link button feature will replace the hyperlink for the content main title and uses a button with standardized text to help unify your showcase presentation.  If you choose to use a link button the default text will be "View Resource" otherwise you can use the input and overwrite that text to use the same phrase for all items.

Sorting

Showcases can use all of the items in the details editor, additionally they can also use the time start from the events editor.  This allows you to sort the showcase in multiple ways.  There are two levels of sorting and both of them are optional.

Filters

You can choose to turn them off within the options, or you can set which filters are displayed to the end user.  This allows for checkboxes that will help users refine what items they see.  This is optional and filters will only display when data is presented.

Showcases will auto disable filter options when something is selected at a higher level that negates the filter from matching any showing items.  Users can uncheck those filter items to enable them but this should keep users from missing filter choices but also not getting messages that no results were found.

Fieldmapping

If you choose to use a style like "position" from the details you can relabel it using fieldmapping to whatever you want.  Be aware that the first instance of a fieldmapped style will set it for all instances within the showcase.  If you have a showcase where the fieldmap is set from another file the first instance wins.

 

 

Editing Gallery Data

By default the gallery will format into a three column (or less) format for easier management of content within the info block file.  This should help minimize the scrolling that is done to manage most galleries.

You can choose different ways to sort data so you're not locked into the order which they are edited.

Content Block Editor

The basic editor is just showing the Content Block section.  That is the section for images and any additional content you want to put with it.  On most gallery styles this extra content will be displayed when the gallery is in light box mode.

Showcase styles, which do not use a light box mode, will display the image and text on the same area.  Depending on the showcase style, you may see only the content main title or more data in the order which it is entered.

Each content block will always display the CSS editor so you can apply filters to image gallery items.

Additional Editors

The showcase options will provide you with Category and Tag edtiors for each type of showcase.  Sorting options require that details editor data be used so make sure your showcase editor style includes the fields you need to edit.

Regular gallery editing layout in three columns

Simple Showcase with the categories and tags editors

As you choose different options for the editor you see different editors appear.  The Details and Events Showcase editor has the most options available where the editors are separated into two columns

The Details Editor

While in the editor you can use the style dropdown menu to choose the field you want to give a value for.  Select the field and type your value.  The field name will automatically appear above the data that is typed.

If you press return within the editor it will retain the last used style.  You can use the style dropdown and look for check marks next to any used styles. 

Verify that the correct style(s) have been used and uncheck the ones that no longer apply. Each time you uncheck the style menu will close and you need to reopen it - this is an Campu CMS behavior.

To make it easier on yourself after you have your first detail section completed and saved, we recommend to copy that field for the next one.  Each field will already have its style set and you can just change the data.

There is no field mapping available in image galleries and not all fields are used.  Check the gallery styles for more information on what fields are used and how they will be displayed.

Detail Styles (Field Names)

The Detail editing toolbar has a list of available fields for use.  Not all fields are used so be sure to check your style guide for clarification.  If an item needs to have the same field used multiple times it is better to use a separate instance of it rather than do a comma separated entry, but the choice is yours.

Item Info

• Active (Y/N) - this allows us to hide items without deleting them
• Item Title - provide context as to what is the item name
• Description Text - depending on the interface this may show up in the default display or show on the larger full item view
• Location - where the item is found, office building, relevant place
• Header Image - an image which will either show up in the full view, or across the top of the info block.  Style will have a direct impact on where / when this displays
• Preview image - mostly used for blogs, this will show up in full view on some interfaces alongside the description text
• Sort Rank - usually a value like a number or letter, this is used for sorting based on editor choice and not something like a name.  Useful if you have a specific order that needs to be maintained - also be aware this values is manually updated
• Set Published Date - the info block will track the original published date of each item.  If old content needs to be backdated or changed this will allow editors to overwrite with a new date

User Info

• First Name - first name of user or item
• Last Name - last name of user or item
• Pronouns - provides space to indicate user chosen pronouns (he/she/they) 
• User/Item Image - image that is used by default for directory items
• Department - most relevant department name
• Unit - if user/item is within a department in a section or other area that is important
• Role - could be speicifc duty, or function that is important to this item
• Status - provides current information about item
• Position - user hired as, or item placement / usage 
• Degree - on a directory this will be placed after user firstname lastname with a comma
• Phone - phone number where they can be contacted
• Email - email address as text, or as a mailto link
• Office - office number, building, etc
• Hours - plain text version of office hours
• User Website - plain text url, or hyperlink to website *do not use URL as hyperlink text
• Lifespan - meant to be used for image galleries when looking at artist information, multiple entries may be allowed based on display style

Content Info

• Medium - Describe materials, multiple entries may be allowed based on display style
• Subject - item subject matter, multiple entries may be allowed based on display style
• Item Website - plain text url, or hyperlink to website *do not use URL as hyperlink text