Topic landing pages

The topic landing page is designed to be a gateway to all the information on a particular topic. 

Create a topic landing page

To create a new landing page:

• Navigate to the correct site (most commonly the Information, services and support site)
• Click the + New button and select Page
• Select Landing page template from the 'Saved on this site' templates list
• Click Create page

Always do these before you start work on your content:

1. Go into Page details and set your topic, content owner, next review date and last reviewed date
2. Turn off comments
3. Publish the page and wait for 1 minute, then go back into edit mode to update the breadcrumb trail web part

Page details

This is information about the page. Some of it is shown on the page. Click on Page details to edit the following:

• Next review date: a required property; this should be set to whenever the content on this page will need updating, up to a maximum of 12 months
• Topic: a required property; choose the topic
• Content owner: a required property, choose the relevant content owner
• Last reviewed date: a required property; this should be set to the date the content was last checked by the content owner. This property hsa a default value of the day of page creation
• Content type: this should be automatically set by the page template. You can correct it here if it isn't right.

Topic landing page sections

• Title area
• Page body (includes Breadcrumb web part, text, Featured pages, topic related News and Events, and Information on other sites)
• Vertical section (includes Side navigation, Quick links, Contact information and About this page)

Title area

• Choose an impactful image that reflects your organisation's work on a topic.
• The default configuration of the Title area is set to Image and title option. Do not change this configuration.
• Leave the 'Name or email address' field blank.
• Leave the 'Text above title' field blank

Page body

• This is where your staff get an overview of all your local information on this topic.
• The breadcrumb web part will show the page hierarchy.
• The featured pages section uses a quick links web part to display all child pages. This web part has various layout options. If using the grid view, linked pages will be listed with a thumbnail image. If there's no image appearing in this view, navigate to the content page being linked and add a thumbnail by:
  • clicking Edit > Page details > Change thumbnail
  • select an appropriate image and click Insert.
• News is surfaced from articles created in the News and events site. You may add a News web part to the page to pull topic-related news onto the page. To set it up:
  • Add the News web part to the page and click 'Edit web part'
  • Most of the settings can be ignored unless you are a coordinator or super user wanting to change how the feed works
  • Look for the filter field and filter by the page property 'topic'. Select the relevant topic from the list.
• Events may be surfaced from an event calendar in the News and events site, or from a calendar created for your topic on the Information, services and support site. To set this up:
  • Add the Events web part to the page and click 'Edit web part'
  • Choose the source site, the events list (from the various calendars across hub/site) and (if applicable) the category of events you would like displayed.

Information on other sites 

• Avoid duplicating information that is published elsewhere. Instead, use this section to link to information that is published outside your intranet. Include some explanatory text if staff might not know what information is there or why they would need it.

Vertical section

Side navigation

• The Side navigation web part will show a visual representation of where the page sits in the site hierarchy, including listing all sibling and children pages.

Quick links

• Use this area for adding 3-5 related items (systems, forms and other resources) that might be related to the page content. 

Contacts

• There are two examples here: contacts for a team, and for individual people. Delete anything that you don't need. 
• If you use the People web part to display individual people, check the details displayed are correct. The People web part automatically displays user information stored in their M365 profiles. If the details are incorrect, advise users to submit a Service Desk ticket and request updates to their profiles.

Description

By default, the description is auto-generated from content on your page.

Because the description is displayed in places like search results and news item listings, we recommend creating a description to replace the default content.

To add a description:

• Edit your landing page
• Click Page details
• Replace the default content with a concise description

A description that concisely summarises the page content will help site visitors navigate to the correct page via search results.

Navigation

If you rename an existing landing page or add a new landing page, remember to get your site coordinator to also update:

• the home page, if your topic is featured there
• the hub navigation menu
• the home page of the Information, services and support site where all top level topics are listed.

Comments

Comments are always enabled by default and unfortunately, there is no way to change this. We recommend disabling comments on landing pages unless the purpose of the page is to engage staff or invite their feedback.