How to create a Contact

Contacts appear in 'Our People' under the "About" section of your site. Contacts will appear in random order unless sorted - see: How to sort and group Contacts.

Note: Content Authors cannot create Contacts.

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Creating a Contact (WatIAM userid)

  1. Create Waterloo employee contact.
    1. Select My Workbench from the Administration menu.
      My Workbench link in the administration bar.
    2. Select Create/Manage Content tab.
      Create/Manage content tab.
    3. Click Contact.
      Contact link.
    4. Click +Add contact.
      Add contact link.
  2. Enter the 8 character WatIAM userid of the contact you are creating and click or tab outside of the field. Information from WatIAM will be automatically populated in the information fields.
    WatIAM userid search box.
    1. The Affiliation will automatically default to University of Waterloo.
  3. Enter the Title or position of the contact.
  4. Upload a Listing page image (optional) - image will appear as a thumbnail on the Our People listing page.
    Listing page image filed
    1. Click Browse and select image.
    2. Click Upload.
    3. Add Alternative text.
  5. Option to add link to person profile or to a CV.Listing page image.
    1. Under Link text, begin to type the name of the profile page.
    2. The page will begin to populate. Select the profile page.
  6. Under Menu settings, select About under Parent item.
  7. Click Save.
    Save button

NOTE: Contacts do not automatically update when the WatIAM entry changes, they only pull data from WatIAM when the userid is entered. To update a contact to pull in new data from WatIAM, edit the contact, put your cursor in the userid field and press tab.

Creating a contact (non- University of Waterloo user)

  1. Create Waterloo employee contact.
    1. Select My Workbench from the Administration menu.
      My Workbench link in the administration bar.
    2. Select Create/Manage Content tab.
      Create/Manage content tab.
    3. Click Contact.
      Contact link.
    4. Click +Add contact.
      Add contact link.
  2. Enter contact information manually starting at Name.
  3. Upload a Listing page image (optional).
  4. Add optional link to Person profile or CV.
    1. Under Link text, begin to type the name of the profile page.
    2. The page will begin to populate. Select the profile page.
  5. Under Menu settings, select About under Parent item.
  6. Click Save.

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