Creating a Dynamic Online Directory

1. Creating a Dynamic Online Directory Phillip Coxwell @philpepe

2. What We Had

3. What We Had • 5 Departments (Biology, Chemistry, Geology/Geography, Mathematics, Physics) • Over 150 Faculty • Updates – Emailed them uploaded • Pages were: • Unorganized • Out of date • Unnecessary Burden

4. What we Have

5. What we Have • Each faculty member has a department page. • Each page uses a standard layout, but is flexible for departments • Each department has a correct and up to date list of all faculty. • All pages are in one central location. • Updates handled by departments/faculty so burden is spread instead of being on one person

6. What we have?

7. What we have • Main Faculty Folder • Each department has a folder • Each Faculty has a folder under each department • Faculty Folders consist of Index page, photo folder and optional Research page folder • They can also link to their research page

8. What we have • Each department has a Faculty Index Page. • This page pulls info from each faculty page within the departments folder. • Creates a dynamic and up to date list of all faculty. • List changes as individual pages are changed.

9. How we did it

10. What we have • Built the Individual Faculty Pages • Built separate Asset Factories for each department • Data Definition, Configuration Set and Content type are all specific to each department. • Faculty can link to their “Research” or “Lab” pages from here.

11. How we did it • One Index page for each department • Pulls the needed info from each faculty member’s page/folder and organizes it. • Used Velocity for the formatting • Some also have page organized by research area • Built to fit each department • ZERO UPDATING!

12. DEMO

13. Questions

14. Phillip Coxwell Email: coxwept@auburn.edu Twitter: @philpepe http://auburn.edu/cosam/conference