Advanced Content Display Page Options

Creating Content
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Now that you’ve used a basic use case for the content display page, let’s take a deeper look at how they work and how to use them for more advanced use cases.

Choose Your Own Content Display Page

A Content Display Page can be any page with an Asset Publisher configured as the “default” asset publisher for a page, and you can set up the rest of the page however you like. This allows you to use Content Display Pages for things beyond displaying a single static piece of content or providing a friendly URL.

Configuring Asset Publishers

Now, let’s configure an Asset Publisher to function as our primary content display.

1. Go to the Activities page.

2. Open the Configuration menu for the Asset Publisher on the right side.

3. In Asset Selection scroll down to Filter and open it.

4. Set Show only assets with Activities as its display page to Yes.

5. Open Display Settings

6. For the Display Template select Full Content.

7. For the Number of Items to Display change it to 1.

8. Set Set as the Default Asset Publisher for This Page select Yes.

   This is the most important step in configuring a Content Display Page. If a page has an Asset Display Template set as the default for the page, any content can be displayed in it.

9. Set Show Metadata Descriptions to No.

10. Click Save.

Most of the configuration options are self explanatory. Next, configure the Asset Publisher on the left to function as an Asset Selector.

1. Open the Configuration menu.

2. In Asset Selection scroll down to Filter and open it.

3. Set Show only assets with Activities as its display page to Yes.

4. Open Display Settings

5. For Display Template select Title List.

6. For Asset Link Behavior select View in Context

7. Click Save.

The Asset Publishers are configured, but there’s no content configured for this page. Next you’ll create content that uses a Content Display Page.

Creating Content with a Display Page

Any content can have a display page set for it, and any page can be a display page if it has a properly configured Asset Publisher on it. Next, you’ll create three content items to be displayed here.

1. Go to the Web Content page in Site Administration.

2. Click the + and select Basic Web Content.

You’ll need to repeat this three times. The content will only have a title and an image.

1. For the first item, set the Title as “Lunar Rover Racing”.

2. Add the lunar-rover.png image.

3. Scroll down and for Display page, click Choose and select Activities.

4. Click Publish.

5. For the second item, name it “Lunar Golf” and add the lunar-golf.png image, set the Content Display Page to Activities and click Publish.

6. For the third item, name it “Lunar Spelunking” and add the lunar-spelunking.png image, set the Content Display Page to Activities and click Publish.

Housekeeping and Final Test

Now to add a few finishing touches.

1. Go back to the Activities page.

2. In the lefthand Asset Publisher, click the Portlet Title, and change it to Choose an Activity and click the checkmark.

3. On the right side, open the Look and Feel Configuration and change the Decoration to Barebone.

Now that your page looks great, test it out -

1. Click on a title and that content will display in the publisher to the right.

Figure 1: Final Activities Page.

Congratulations, you’ve finished creating the Activities page, and configured a dynamic content display.