Webmaster's Showcase

Policies and Procedures Manual

and Faculty Handbook

• Structured Content
• Reusing Related Content
• Tag Cloud

The Policies and Procedures Manual website was created using structured content.  Details about each policy or procedure are entered into a back-end form.  The system then generates the table of contents and the detail pages for each entry.

The Faculty Handbook website was created in a large part by relating Handbook entries to the Policies and Procedures Manual entries. Rather than repeat the creation of policy information, a linkage was made in the back end to reuse the policy statement from the Policies and Procedures Manual site and to create a link back to that site for expanded information.

One of the fields on the back-end Policies and Procedures form, allows for the entry of tags.  These are key words that can be used as filters or, as in this case, to create an alphabetical site index.  The size of the words in the tag cloud display indicates the relative number of entries that have been tagged with that key word.

 

 

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Marywood Directory

• On/off-campus detection
• External data extraction
• Search on all fields

The link to the Marywood Directory is only displayed for users on the on-campus staff network. 

This directory of faculty, staff and administrative contact information is drawn directly from Marywood's administrative system, so information is as up-to-date as possible.

The single search box searches on all fields in the database, making for powerful searching.

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Webmaster's Showcase

• Custom structure
• Paginated content

This Showcase is built from a custom structure and with a macro that separates the display of the content into separate pages.  The macro is set to display up to five items per page and automatically generates new pages as needed.

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Career Services

• Graphic enhancement
• Calendar pull
• Integrated content (cd-based)
• Custom ColdFusion programming

Custom graphics have been created to enhance the site. 

A "Save the Date" section employs a pull from the University Calendar of Career Services events.

Select the "What Can I Do With This Major?" link to view content that has been integrated into the system from a cd-based program.

Select the "On/Off Campus Recruitment" link to view a recruitment schedule generated by a custom programmed ColdFusion system that allows Career Services personnel to enter recruiter information into a database which generated the schedule page.  When a recruiter will conduct on-campus interviews, the system allows users to select and reserve a time for the interview.  Wher a recruiter wants a list of interested individuals, the system collects the names and contact information of those interested.  Schedules and lists can then be generated and provided to the recruiters.

 

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Marywood University Library

• Custom Structures
• Filtered Content
• On/Off-Campus Detection

The Online Databases list is generated out of a dotCMS custom structure.  The user is able to filter the list by type of resource (e.g., art picture, directory, e-book) or by academic subject area. 

JavaScript is used to detect whether or not the user is on campus and to adjust the lists and access accordingly.

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