Article

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Demo Article - All Fields

May 4, 2017

This is a demonstration of an article which has all fields filled in. This is the summary field.

Use Article when you’re adding an individual piece of information that is written by an Person or group that can be shown in multiple locations. This content features author, publication date, often times an image. (Examples: News release, feature story, article, information article.)

Fields

Title

Title is the headline text indicating the nature of the article below it. Titles in article content type should be written in sentence case and have action words and verbs that describe the article.

Summary

This further describes the content of the article. The summary will appear on the article page and on index pages.

Image

Optional but highly preferred, insert image that is the highest quality and with appropriate permissions

Image Description

Required when there is an image, describe the image for those using a screen reader (serves as alternate text)

Image Caption

Not required, should be different from the image description, related and relevant to the article.

Date Published

Required. The date the article is published.

Author Text

Only use if there is no author relationship. This will display in addition to the author relationship, be sure not to repeat the information that’s already listed in author. There can be more than one author.

Content

Required. The body of the article.

Relationships

Author-Article

This is the author or authors of the article. For people who are not in the system use the author field to list additional authors.

Series-Article

This is any grouping of other articles with which the article is affiliated. It is possible for an article to to be affiliated with more than one Series.

Organization-Article

This is any Organization with which the article is affiliated. It is possible for an article to to be affiliated with more than one Organization.

Featured-Person

The person(s) featured as the primary subject of the article. Example -- Those whose research is mentioned, quoted, etc.

Article-relatedArticles (Parent)

Displays any articles where this article is a related article.

Publication-Article

Displays the publications that the article was published in.

Dataset-Article

This is any topic or other grouping of information with which the article is affiliated. It is possible for an article to to be affiliated with more than one Dataset.

Location-Content

This is any Place with which the article is affiliated. It is possible for an article to to be affiliated with more than one Place.

Article-relatedArticles (Child)

Choose articles to feature after this article that are closely related to the subject matter not counting articles in a series.

Content Types

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