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Contact Callout

The Contact callout displays contact information for up to three people from a unit's faculty and staff directory. It allows you to maintain the information in one place - on the profile pages - and will automatically update should the profile information change.

Watch the Video (07:58) and review the accompanying instructions.

  • Contact Callout 1

    1. Access the Callout Editable Region and click the Maximize Content Region icon (A). Place the cursor in the white area of the editable region and press Enter. Click the Gadget icon and open the Snippets gadget. Select the Callout option (B) from the dropdown. Double-click on Contact Callout (C) to insert it.

  • contact Callout 2

    2. Update the default Headline (D) if necessary and provide text in the Caption row (E). Highlight the placeholder text Main Directory Page (F) and click on Insert/Edit Link (G). Click Browse and navigate to your faculty-staff directory section.

  • Contact Callout 3

    3. Type "index" in the filter box to easily locate the main directory page and select either the .php pr . xml page product (H). Click Insert and then Ok.

  • Contact Callout 4

    4. Highlight the Profile1 placeholder text and click on the Insert/Edit link tool. Click Browse and navigate again to your faculty-staff directory section. Locate the profile page and select either the .php pr . xml page (I) product. Repeat for additional two profile links to display the contact information for up to 3 faculty or staff profiles.


  • Contact Callout 5

    5. When changing the color for the callout, make sure to select the current color first from the Style dropdown (J) to clear it. Then select the new color. Only one color should be selected at a time. The vertical gray bar (K) next to the color listing indicates what color(s) are selected.

  • Contact Callout 6

     6. Save the page to preview the Contact Callout.

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