Overview
Website Collections are a way to group together articles and/or episodes, for displaying on the website. It is the pre-filtering of articles or episodes from all the available articles or episodes of a particular show. These two types can also be combined into a mixed type Collection, for a hybrid third option.
This is an advanced topic, and for most websites, this type of functionality will not be required on a regular basis. Unless one has a large media library or a large number of articles, it would be advised to use the standard filtering available on the frontend blocks of the CMS, as the Collections functionality adds a layer of complexity most websites will not need.
Note: Collections for the website can be collections of articles or episodes. Collections for Episodes in the media library are covered under a different article. See the link below.
Notes:
- A list page is required for listing all content from a collection.
- A detail page, below the list page, is required for displaying the item selected on a list page.
- It is required to have these two pages in place before creating the collection.
How to
Create a Collection of articles
- Click on the website sub-module Collections.
- Click on the Add collection button.
- In the next screen, fill in the fields:
- Name: Provide a name for the collection.
- Type: Choose Articles.
- Detail page: Set the website detail page.
- To help filter:
- Site's Flag: Select flag, if needed.
- Flags excluded: Select flag, if needed.
- Categories: Select one or more, if needed.
- Organizations: Select one or more, if needed.
- When ready, click on the Create button.
Using a Collection of articles
- Click on the website name to open the page tree.
- Click on the page title to edit the page content.
- Ex. News page, click on the "News" page title.
- Go to the Articles blocks.
- Drag and drop the block Article list onto the page and click on it.
- Go to the Properties tab on the right.
- Under Collection: Select the newly created collection.
- Note: When a collection is used, the standard fields for Filters and sorting may not appear, as the values are already set from the collection.
- Click the blue Save button on the upper right.
- Click the View online button to check the results in the frontend to verify the desired articles are appearing in the list.
