Team
What is a team?
The 'Team' content type is a manually created group of staff profiles that can be used to represent departmental or organisational structure, or any staff grouping.
Before you create a team, make sure a Person profile exists for each team member. You can then manually add each profile to the Team page, which will display their name and a link to their profile.
If you want to create a page for a team working on a project, you may want to consider using a Project page.
Use this content type to represent teams ranging from:
- high-level organisational or executive to
- small groups of staff.
The team content type shouldn't be used for:
- creating a directory of contacts
- grouping profiles by areas of research or study, use the Research profile page.
How to create a team
Team pages can be created, edited and deleted by:
- editors
- site coordinators.
Once you log in to your website:
- Hover over the Drupal 'Content' menu and go to 'Add content' > 'Team'.
- Enter a team title and a description of the team.
- Click the 'Add members' button and then:
- Enter a description of team members and their roles (optional).
- Click in the 'Members' box and start typing a name. Select the team member's name from the list that appears.
- Add another person by clicking the 'Add another item' button.
- From the side menu at the top of the page, select the team's appropriate 'Staff group'.
- Enter team's contact email, phone number and location.
- Tag the team with desired taxonomy terms.
- Click the 'Publish' button to save and publish the team page.
Multiple member groups can be added, each with their own description field to create smaller subsets within a larger team.
Ordering people within teams
To change the order of people in a team:
- Drag team members into a different order by using the four-point icon.
- Click the 'Save' button at the bottom of the page to finish.
Best practice
- Regularly update and review team pages.
- Manually delete profiles from the team page when someone leaves UQ or your department.
- Add generic team contact details to the team profile and a short description of what the team does.
Fields
Fill in all required fields and as many optional fields as possible to provide the best user experience.
Field name | Required field? | Notes |
---|---|---|
Title | Yes | Page title and H1 of the team page. |
Description | No | Displays a short description of the team's role and purpose. |
Members | No | Defines multiple groups of people within a team. |
Members > Description | No | Displays a description of team members and their roles. |
Members > Members | No | References the 'Person' profile for a team member and links to their profile from the team page. You can reorder members by clicking and dragging the four-point icon next to the profile. |
Staff group | No | Categorises the team to allow for sorting and filtering on listing pages (for example, the Staff Directory). |
No | Displays a general contact email for the team. | |
Phone | No | Displays a general team phone number for the team. |
Location | No | Displays the physical location of the team. |
Tags | No | Allows the page to be tagged with taxonomy terms. |