A Person node is created for someone who works at the Department of Energy or one of its branch offices or labs.
March 30, 2023
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A Person node is created for someone who works at the Department of Energy or one of its branch offices or labs. Person nodes can be referenced as Contributors for Articles or in a Static Listing Paragraph Block for things like Leadership pages.
If a Person page was created for your group and you have Editor permissions, you can edit the Person node. Only Admins and Advanced Editors can create Person nodes.
How to make sure the Person Node doesn't already exist
We want to ensure only one Person node exists for each actual person, so their career achievements follow them across different Offices in the Department.
From an existing Article's /edit, or using /node/add/article, search in the Contributor field in the Details Section for the Article. Search for your intended Person's name there. If you find it, do not create a duplicate. You can edit it if it belongs to your group, otherwise, contact DOECMS Support for the next steps, of either transferring the Person node to your group, or sending the update request to the current Content Owner.
Note: The Content view does not show nodes from other offices, and so is not good for verifying this.
How to Create a New Person:
Required Steps:
- Verify the Person does not exist in the CMS already. Contact DOECMS-Support if it already does.
- In the shortcut bar, select Person, Click Add Person under Add Content.
- Select the Primary Office under Office Assignments if prompted.
- Enter the Name of the Person in First Name, Last Name order.
- Save as draft or review the node and publish if satisfied.
Advanced Steps:
- In the shortcut bar, select Person, Click Add Person under Add Content.
- Select the Primary Office under Office Assignments if prompted.
- Optional: Enter First Name.
- Optional: Enter Last Name.
- Optional: Enter Title held by the Person.
- Optional: Enter prefix of Contributor, if applicable.
- Optional; Enter suffix of Contributor, if applicable.
- Enter the Name of the Person in First Name, Last Name order.
- Optional: Provide short name, if applicable.
- Optional: Add headshot image. Minimum recommended resolution: 600px x 600px. used as Thumbnail Image when Contributor node is linked/ referenced. Will display as circular thumbnail. Will get automatically cropped as a circle to the center of the image when displayed in Listing (Static) paragraph.
- Optional: Enter the Summary Text. The summary text displays as the text to provide context within a search result
- Optional: Enter email of Person.
- Optional: Enter the Career Highlights field. Any career highlights for this person. You may use multiple values; please put one highlight per field.
- Save as draft or review the node and publish if satisfied.