Website Collections for Episodes*

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 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. There are also, Collections for the media library, these are covered under a different article.

Notes:

• A list page is required for listing all content from collection
• A detail page, below the list page, for displaying item selected on list page
• It is required to have these two pages in place, before creating the collection

How to

Create a Collection of episodes

1. Navigate below the website to sub-module "Collections"
2. Click on Add collection button
3. In the popup:
   • Name: Provide a name for the collection
   • Type: choose episodes
   • (additional fields will appear)
4. Detail page: set website detail page
5. Channel: select the media library channel
6. Show: select the show from the media library
7. Season: select a season if one is available
8. Media type: select video or audio
9. Categories: select one or more, if needed
10. When ready click on the Update button
11. Note: make sure the filtering selections are not removing all the results. For example, if you pick a show, but the category doesn't match that of the show, then you might not have anything in the collection.

Using a Collection for episodes (Adventist design)

Notes: 

• Requires an ANN episode detail page
• Currently not for Hope design

1. Click on the website name to open the pagetree
2. Click on the page title to edit page content
3. Click on block "Episodes list" (for example)
4. Collection: select newly created collection
5. (if you don't see the collection field, uncheck "Dynamic" field)
6. ! When a data source is used, the standard fields for Filters and sorting may not appear, as the values are already set from the data source.
7. Check the results in the frontend to verify the desired episodes are appearing in the list.

Additional Information

• Website Collections for Articles

updated 2025-12-11