Adding a Project/Initiative
Once logged in, from the Drupal admin toolbar, click Content > Add content > Project/Initiative.
Input the following fields:
- Title: For the name of the project or initiative
- Description: For additional information about the project or initiative not already covered by the additional fields under the Project/Initiative information tab, e.g., a short description of the work to be completed.
Next, click the Project/Initiative information tab to access the following fields:
- Project Type: For specifying the type of project or initiative.
- Project Category: For specifying which service area this project or initiative is related to.
- Project Status: For displaying the project's current status.
- Project Area: For specifying the communities relevant to this project or initiative.
- Based on this input, the corresponding Community content type node will display a link to this Project/Initiative node. See the Community content type page for more information.
- Location: For inputting the latitude and longitude of the park/trail. This will place a marker on a map, displayed on the node's detail view.
- Input the street address into this LatLong tool to find the needed values.
- Estimated Cost: For specifying the project or initiative's estimated cost/budget.
- Estimated Timeline: For a short description of the project's timeline, e.g., "January to April 2024".
- Contracted To / Performed By: For naming the group/contractor that is undergoing this work.
- Additional information: For adding any relevant internal or external links that provide additional information or context for this content.
Finally, click the Related content tab to access the following field:
- Related contact: For displaying a specific contact's information in the page sidebar. See the Contact content type page for more information.
Editing a Project/Initiative
- To edit a specific node, click on Content in the Drupal toolbar.
- Filter by the Project/Initiative content type.
- Click to edit the specific node. Make your desired edits.
- Make sure that Published is selected in the dropdown menu, and click Save.
Content sharing
Project/Initiative content type nodes that are created on the Capital Region Housing Corporation (CRHC) site can be shared to the corporate site by checking the Share with the corporate site field under the Advanced settings tab:
Checking this field will add the node to a feed that runs daily. This field is only accessible to full site administrators and content admins.
When a node is added to the feed, the following fields will be synced:
- Description
- Project Type
- Project Category
- Project Status
- Project Area
- Location
- Estimated Cost
- Estimated Timeline
- Contracted To / Performed By
- Additional information links
- Hide Page Feedback
- Hide Territorial Acknowledgement
If a Project/Initiative node is shared from CRHC, this will automatically check a Shared another site field in management settings of the corresponding node on the main site.
When this field is checked (done automatically by the feed importer), all fields that are part of the sharing feed will be removed and replaced with warning message communicating that the node is shared from another site. This prevents users from updating content on the shared node instead of the source node. Do not edit the "shared from the CRHC site" field for any reason.
Content lifecycle
Project/Initiative content type nodes will be archived/unpublished one year after the Status field input is set to 'Completed'.
Editorial guidelines
For instructions on when to use the Project/Initiative content type and how to write this type of content, see the UX style guide.
