Personal Contact Information

This article explains how to create and display relevant contacts to the Homepage or Page. The information allows journalists and other readers to contact the relevant contacts via phone, email, or social media.

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Table of contents:

Adding Personal Contact Information to the Homepage or Page

  1. Go to Newsroom or select a specific article from Pages.

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  2. Under modules, open the Contact information dropdown and select Personal.

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  3. On the personal contact data screen, toggle the OFF button to ON
  4. All available contacts will appear below in a list. 

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  5. Select one or more contacts. 
  6. Click Save to confirm. 

The selected contacts will now be visible on the Homepage or Page. 

Adding and editing Contacts

All Users are automatically added Contacts. It is possible to add additional contacts that aren't users:

  1. Click the New Contact button at the bottom left.
  2. The Contact details window will open. 
  3. Fill in all applicable information for the new contact and add a photo
  4. Click Save. 

To make changes to the details of existing contacts:

  1. Hover over contact name and click on the pencil icon. The Contact details window will open. 
  2. Edit the details and click Save to confirm the changes.
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Note:

Only admin users can create new users on the platform. For a contact who will also be a user on the platform, create the new user via the Admin Settings menu

Managing Personal Contact Information options

After adding the contacts to the Personal Contact Information, choose how the contact information and photo will appear:

  • Display Options - Select the size of the contact photo. The actual appearance may vary slightly depending on the template.
     

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    • Default display
       

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    • Avatar mode:  
       

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  • Change the order - Arrange the contacts by  holding the move icon and dragging and dropping the contacts in the preferred order.

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Select Save to confirm the changes.

Editing or deleting Newsroom contacts in bulk

Edit or delete the contacts that appear on the Homepage or Page with the Mass edit button in the Personal Contact Information module. 

If you have more than one language, mass editing your contacts this way only affects the current language.

  1. To mass edit a contact.
  2. Select Mass Edit.

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  3. A popup will open, select one of the options:
    • Add - select a contact to add to all the articles.
    • Remove - select a contact to remove from all the articles.
    • Replace - select a contact you want to get replaced from the left column and the replacement from the right column.
       

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  4. Click Save.
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