I'm trying to add authors to blogs with a job title included but it seems there is no drop down to select authors in the CMS (so to have a pop up box we need to type out the job title as well as the name on each post).
Does anybody have any insight to how we can do this? Or format the author description box to include spacing between lines so we can add the job title to this section as an alternative?
I suppose my first question is, is the Author of the post different to the person who put it into the CMS?
If that is the case, why not add an "Author" property to your blog post document type where you can input text as required. You might want to use 2 fields, one for title and one for name or maybe a Text Area where you can input multiple lines?
As a follow on to Nik's post, if you have repeating authors, you could create your authors as content nodes, putting them in a separate folder, using a document type that has just the job title as a field (as the name is mandatory for the content item anyway).
You can then add a content picker to the blog post with a start node of the folder that contains them all. You can then render the data from the picked item in your template.
That way you wouldn't need to type the job title over and over again.
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Hi guys,
I'm trying to add authors to blogs with a job title included but it seems there is no drop down to select authors in the CMS (so to have a pop up box we need to type out the job title as well as the name on each post).
Does anybody have any insight to how we can do this? Or format the author description box to include spacing between lines so we can add the job title to this section as an alternative?
Thanks all!
Hi Kaylan,
I suppose my first question is, is the Author of the post different to the person who put it into the CMS?
If that is the case, why not add an "Author" property to your blog post document type where you can input text as required. You might want to use 2 fields, one for title and one for name or maybe a Text Area where you can input multiple lines?
As a follow on to Nik's post, if you have repeating authors, you could create your authors as content nodes, putting them in a separate folder, using a document type that has just the job title as a field (as the name is mandatory for the content item anyway).
You can then add a content picker to the blog post with a start node of the folder that contains them all. You can then render the data from the picked item in your template.
That way you wouldn't need to type the job title over and over again.
Nice idea Anthony, like it :-)
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