Providing personal details (but not too personal) on the people who work and study in your area can be very valuable. A lot of website visitors are looking for contact details for staff members.
We have introduced a new “Personal Details” content type that allows you to provide varying degrees of information on an individual staff member. If this template is used consistently, CMS support can assist you in automatically creating a staff list from the content added using this content type. There are a number of steps in order to get a full set of staff pages in place.

You will first need to create a “People” section in your site structure:
1.
Go to your top level section drop down menu (yellow arrow)
2.
Choose “Add Section”
3.
Give the new section a name “People”
4.
Give the new section an output uri “people”
5.
Click on the “Page Layouts” tab
6.
Set the “Page Layout” and the “Inheritable Page Layout” for the www.ucc.ie and testinternet channels to “People List Page”
7.
Click “Add” to add the section.
The second step in creating comprehensive people information is to add the individual staff member information using the “Personal details” content type.
This can be automated to an extent but you need to contact cmssupport@ucc.ie
to arrange this and you will still need to know to what each of the fields in the content type relates in order to fully implement the personal details.
If you wish you can also do this manually:
1.
Go to the “Content” menu and choose “Add Content”.
2.
Select your People section (if you haven’t already done so you will need to create an individual section for each person)
3.
Choose “Personal details” from the list of available content types.
4.
Give the piece of content a Name, usually the person’s full name.
5.
Photograph: select an image for the person from your media library. If you don’t have a photograph, you can use the generic no photo image
which is available in the “central media” category in the media library.
6.
Surname: The person’s surname.
7.
Forename: The person’s first name.
8.
Unit: tick the relevant unit(s) for that person. If your unit is not available on the list, contact cmssupport@ucc.ie
to get it added.
9.
Position: provide the job title / position for the person
10. Work Area: this could be the general area in which the person works or a specific group within a department. This is not a required field and can
be left blank.
11. Research Area: this could be the areas of research that an academic or research staff member is involved with. This is not a required field and
can be left blank.
12. Qualifications: the person’s qualifications. This is not a required field
and can be left blank.
13. Email: the person’s email address

14. Phone: the person’s contact number. Phone numbers should be in the
format +353 (0)21 490 xxxx.
15. IRIS page: provide the person’s IRIS profile page address if available and relevant. This is not a required field and can be left blank.
16. Biography: provide some biographical information on the person. This is
not a required field and can be left blank.
17. Biography Open: tick this box if you want the biographical detail to be displayed by default when the page is loaded. This is not a required field
and can be left blank.
18. Research Interests: for providing more detailed information on research interests. This is not a required field and can be left blank.
19. Research Interests Open: tick this box if you want the research interests detail to be displayed by default when the page is loaded. This is
not a required field and can be left blank.
20. Publications: for providing more detailed information on publications that the individual was involved with. This is not a required field and can
be left blank.
21. Publications Open: tick this box if you want the publications detail to be displayed by default when the page is loaded. This is not a required field
and can be left blank.
22. Professional Activity: for providing more detailed information on professional activity. This is not a required field and can be left blank.
23. Professional Activity Open: tick this box if you want the professional activity detail to be displayed by default when the page is loaded. This is
not a required field and can be left blank.
24. Teaching Activity: for providing more detailed information on teaching activity. This is not a required field and can be left blank.
25. Teaching Activity Open: tick this box if you want the professional activity detail to be displayed by default when the page is loaded. This is
not a required field and can be left blank.
26. Primary Letter: The first letter of the person’s surname. This is required if you want to build an A-Z list.
27. Staff Category: tick the relevant category. This is required if you wish to build staff lists by category.
28.Click “Add and Approve” (or “Update and Approve” if modifying an existing piece of content).

If you wish to have a complete A-Z list of people on your site, you will need to contact cmssupport@ucc.ie
once your individual person sections are in place.
If you wish to have a complete A-Z list of people on your site, you will need to contact cmssupport@ucc.ie
once your individual person sections are in place.
The personal details content type is not intended as a replacement for the IRIS profile. There is no need to copy all of the information from an IRIS profile to a personal details content item on a site. You can use the personal details content type to display a small subset of the information on an IRIS profile so that you can then build a people list that contains both academic staff and admin/support staff.
Currently we cannot automate the transfer of IRIS information into the personal details content type but this is planned for the near future.