BC Business
How to Create New Blocks A block has the following attributes: Content, Region, Weight and Location. Name (Descrption): This is what appears on the block list page Content: self-explanatory Region: left sidebar, right sidebar Weight: If multiple blocks on a page, which one appears where, lighter the weight the higher it goes Page Visibility: On which pages/sections a block appears on
Page Visibility: At the bottom of every block, there are settings for Page specific visibility; if a page is by itself (i.e. work with us) and has no sub-pages then you can specify the block visibility based on the url. For the “Work With Us” landing page, you would enter “cw/work-with-us” Reference: https://live.canadawide.com/admin/build/block/configure/block/17
Therefore setting blocks on category landing pages is set by the navigation urls. On article pages (only applies to Our Services articles) – then the url that is entered into the block is slightly different: our services articles url: canada-wide/our-services*
Where the asterisk is a wildcard.
Step 1: Goto admin/build/block or admin/build/block/add Step 2: Give your block a description (titles aren’t displayed anyway) – give it a consistent prefix such as CW Parent, as not blocks from BCB and GW also appear here. Step 3: Fill in the block body – full html is accepted here and line breaks do not automatically create paragraph breaks Step 4: Save Block Step 5: Find your Block under the “Disabled” Blocks – Click ‘Configure’ Step 6: Edit the Page Visibility at the bottom of the block Step 7: Save Block and turn it on by selecting from the region drop-down left sidebar, or right sidebar. The weight is optional unless there are more than 1 block on a page.
How to Create an Article
Creating any article for the Canada Wide Parent site is essentially the same as on BCB and GW, except that it doesn’t use all the available form fields. The ones that apply to CW articles are:
Main Article Title Global Canada Wide Categories (drop-down) Tags Article Image Article Image Caption Subtitle Intro Article Body Inline Article Field File Attachments (optional)
Step 1: Goto www.canadawide.com/node/add/article or click “Create Article” from the admin sidebar menu Step 2: Enter the article title Step 3: Select a category (at the bottom) under the Canada Wide category (i.e. Our Products etc…). Step 4: Enter keywords that describe this article Step 5: Browse and Upload an article image (appears in the right sidebar) Step 6: Enter Article Image Caption (appears under the image, can be html (i.e. linked) Step 7: Enter a Subtitle Step 8: Enter an Intro Step 9: Enter the Article Body
Pre-styled HTML to use here: Visual Formatting is dependent on using the exact html below. Key Facts; wrap whatever relevant text in the html below
Your text
Dotted Separator Line:
Orange Text:
Bulleted Lists:
Orange Arrow Lists:
Special Sections (i.e. Making Connections); will render a pre-styled box.
Step 10: Inline Article Field
Pre-styled HTML to use here:
Orange Header with arrow:
Black Header with asterisk:
Step 11: File Attachments (optional)
To add additional images to the main body, you can use the file attachment as a simple way to upload images. They all end up in one place on the server (/files/foo.jpg), so it doesn’t matter from which article you upload them. After uploading them you can add this html anywhere to make them show up:
Step 12: You’re done! Click Submit
Editing Homepage static content
Changing the static text on the homepage, requires editing something called a “Panel” – be extremely cautious! The homepage panel can be found here /admin/build/panels/edit/22
The *only* section that requires editing is under Bottom Column 1, do not change anything else. Step 1: Click on Configure to open the edit box, edit html here. Step 2: Click Save at the bottom. Scheduling Content to the Homepage
You can schedule content on the homepage via these urls, available in this doc or from the sidebar navigation links or directly from the homepage, by click the “S” icon next to each previously slotted story.
Schedule Slot1 Schedule Slot2 Schedule Slot3 Schedule Slot4 Schedule Slot5