Admin Settings

TAXONOMY 

Taxonomy is Drupal-speak for organizing your content in categories. A Vocabulary is a container that holds different categories. For example, the vocabulary “Topics” contains categories like “Dinosaurs” and “Community Science.”  The categories themselves are referred to as Terms.

Taxonomies in use on the site are:

  • Event Type        
  • Topics   
  • Location        
  • News Type        
  • Exhibit Type        
  • Story Type        
  • Story Series        
  • Programs        
  • Audience Type        
  • Department        
  • Color Theme

To view all taxonomies, go to Structure > Taxonomy. 

MANAGING TERMS

Go to Structure > Taxonomy and click on "List terms” for the taxonomy you would like to manage. 

This will take you to a view where you can manually order the list of terms, reset the order to alphabetical and add, delete, or edit terms. 

ADDING A NEW TERM

To create a new term, click on the “Add term” button. Enter the term in the title field and save. 

MENUS

To manage a menu go to Structure > Menus and then click on the title of the menu you would like to edit. You have the ability to manage the following menus:

  • Global
  • Footer
  • NHMLAC Main navigation
  • NHM Main navigation
  • Tar Pits Main navigation
  • Hart Main navigation

EDITING MENU LINKS

To edit a menu link click on “edit” next to the name of the link.

This will take you to a screen that lets you change the menu link title, path and the parent link.  Once you have made the desired changes to the page click the “save” button.


REORDERING MENU LINKS

You can rearrange the order of the menu links as well as the hierarchy of the links by using the crosshair symbols to drag and drop the links into the desired order. 

Once you have links in the desired order click the “save configuration” button at the bottom of the page.


ADDING MENU LINKS

To add new links to a menu click the “add link” button. 

For each new link you will need to add a menu title, link path, and select a parent link.

Please note that the Path should be entered using the node ID number in the format of “node/60215.” When editing a page you can find its node number in the URL structure. 

You also have the ability to add a page to the menu structure while editing the page itself using the Menu Settings in the right hand sidebar.

URL REDIRECTS

To manage URL redirects on the website go to Configuration > Search and Metadata > URL Redirects.

 

ADDING NEW REDIRECTS

To add a new URL redirect click on “Add Redirect” button at the top of the page

This will take you to a screen that lets you enter the path (existing URL) and the “to” link (relative link on the new site). The “to” link field is an autocomplete field; as you begin typing the name of the page that you want the redirect to link to, the CMS will generate a dropdown of pages that match what you have typed. 

Select the type of redirect from the options in the dropdown and then click the “save” button to add the new redirect into the CMS. 

 

EDITING REDIRECTS

To edit a URL redirect click on “edit” button next to the name name of the redirect. 

This will take you to a screen that lets you change the path (existing URL) and the  “to” link (relative link on the new site) as well as set the redirect status.  Once you have made the desired changes to the page click the “save” button.

ADDING A NEW USER

To add a new user go to People > Add User and fill out the following fields. 

  • E-mail Address: Enter the new user’s email address
  • Username: Enter a username 
  • Password: Enter a password
  • Confirm Password: Re-enter the password
  • Status: For new users the status should be active. You can switch a user’s account status to block to disable their access to the CMS.
  • Roles: Select the appropriate role for the user
  • Notification: Check the box "Notify user of new account"
  • Domain Access & Domain Administrator: Select the domain(s) the user should have access to and be able to administer while logged in.