Biography Detail
A page that provides detailed biography information about a person at TNC
- This template can also be used to add an external author to the system without creating a bio page. To do this, in page properties, set the author to “External.”
Sample Applied Pages:
- Any page in the Our People section
Bio Page Properties
Page Creation (2 Tabs)
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This is the end portion of the URL of the page. Enter a URL in this field in URL format. Example: this-is-a-url-example. The URL field should contain ONLY lower case letters and numbers and dashes. Spaces and special characters are not allowed. Make sure you are happy with the page URL as it is very difficult to change. 50-character limit.
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Page Title should be written for external audiences and displays on page cards, internal search results, breadcrumbs (if applicable) and in components when the title is not authored directly. 150-character limit.
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This should be an enticing sentence or two about what readers will find on this page. It will be used on page cards and in internal search results.
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Select biography. The content type for all pages in the biography detail template should be "Biography."
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This should be the BU or department that is the primary owner of the page. This field will be used for aggregation pages, analytics tracking, and will allow you to easily locate all of your pages for internal review or audit.
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Select at least one audience tag that best describes the target audience of your content. Choose the broadest audience that would benefit from the goals of your page.
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Select Internal for all staff and board members that require visible bio pages. If you select External the bio page will not aggregate and the page properties will be used only for adding author information to pages. If you have a guest author who is not at TNC or a TNC staff author without an external presence, these might be reasons to select "external."
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Enter the first name of the person for whom this page is about. Used for sorting.
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Enter the last name of the person for whom this page is about. Used for sorting.
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Enter the name of the person(s) who should recieve notifications if a link or asset on the page is expiring - or if the page itself is set to expire.
Basic Tab
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COMPLETED IN PAGE CREATION STEP. Page Title should be written for external audiences and displays on page cards, internal search results, breadcrumbs (if applicable) and in components when the title is not authored directly. 150-character limit.
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Optional. The only place this will used is as the subtitle in hero components if a custom subtitle is not entered in the component.
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COMPLETED IN PAGE CREATION STEP. This should be an enticing sentence or two about what readers will find on this page. It will be used on page cards and in internal search results.
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If the page is available in more than one language, enter the language of the current page in this field. 50 character limit.
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Enter the page path for the current page (the page in the language indicated in the previous field).
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If the page is available in a different language, enter the name of that language here (in the native language - e.g. Español). 50 character limit.
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Enter the page path for the alternate language version of the page (the language indicated in the previous field).
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Checking this box will hide any active site-wide alert banners from displaying on your page. This may be used at your discretion, but is not generally recommended.
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Checking this box will remove the social share buttons from the page. This may be used at your discretion but is not generally recommended.
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Do not use this checkbox unless instructed to do so by global marketing teams.
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Use the calendar icon to schedule a date and time for the page to go live once it is published. If none is selected, the page will go live automatically after workflow is complete. You can also select publish time when submitting your page for publishing.
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For non-evergreen content, enter a desired expiration date (off time).
Image Tab
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Select an image to display on page cards (typically a headshot). This image will be pulled onto the page card in related people components and on people aggregation pages.
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Enter a description of what is shown in the page card image selected in the field above. Alt text is critical to making the page accessible to all audiences.
OG Tags (Social Share)
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Enter a title for the social post. This will appear on social share card generated when someone shares the page link on social media.
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Enter a short description. This should be an enticing sentence or two about what readers will find on this page. It will show on social media posts that generate from sharing page link.
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Choose the most appropriate page type. Most pages that are not in the article template should be categorized as 'website.' Search engines need this piece of info to recognize pages.
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Required. Select an image to display when a social media post is generated from the page link.
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Optional. Enter the relative URL for the page. Field determines the address that the social post will link to.
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OG site name determines the source that displays on social posts. For pages on the TNC global English site, the field should read 'The Nature Conservancy.'
SEO Tab
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This is what is seen in the browser tab and Google search results. Should be a shorter version of the page title and include high value words. If you have enough room, include branding at the end of the title: | The Nature Conservancy OR | TNC (though don't sacrifice important words to fit the branding in). 65 character limit.
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This description is visible in Google and other external search engine results. It should primarily entice people to click on the page: what is the page about, why should people want to read it. 170 character limit.
Biography Details tab
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COMPLETED IN PAGE CREATION STEP. Select Biography.
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COMPLETED IN PAGE CREATION STEP. This should be the BU or department that is the primary owner of the page. This field will be used for aggregation pages, analytics tracking, and will allow you to easily locate all of your pages for internal review or audit.
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Optional. If applicable, select secondary business groups to be used for sorting and filtering. If the bio should appear connected with other business group(s) in search, filtering, and sorting, additional business group or groups should be entered here. This field is optional and multi-select.
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COMPLETED DURING PAGE CREATION STEP. Select at least one audience tag that best describes the target audience of your content. Choose the broadest audience that would benefit from the goals of your page.
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Select the category of the person featured on this page (e.g. Scientists). If the person has an external bio page visible, they will need to aggregate underneath one of the person category tabs on an our people page.
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Leave blank unless instructed otherwise by global teams. Feature status allows us to bring globally featured individuals with a strong external presence, such as our CEO, to the top of the page.
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This is an open field. You can select expertise types from the path picker or enter expertise manually. Include as many as applicable. These are searchable terms and will appear on the page.
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Optional. May want to include for region based staff (e.g. State Director).
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Required. Enter title of profiled person. This will show up on the page (e.g. Lead Scientist, Latin America Region).
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Required. This will show up on the page (e.g. Arlington, VA).
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COMPLETED IN PAGE CREATION. Select Internal for all staff and board members that require visible bio pages. If you select External the bio page will not aggregate and the page properties will be used only for adding author information to pages.
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Required. Select or enter file path for headshot. Headshot must be loaded in the DAM and published. The headshot will display on the bio page and will pull into author fields on various components. For example, if a nature.org article is authored by this person and the author component is enabled on that page, this headshot will show in a small inset component near the top of the page.
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Select the part of the image you want preserved when the image is cropped to fit the required aspect ratio. For example, if you have a waist up image, you may want to select center/top to ensure that you capture a full headshot.
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Select the part of the image you want preserved when the image is cropped to fit the required aspect ratio on mobile devices. For example, if you have a waist up image, you may want to select center/top to ensure that you capture a full headshot.
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Enter alt text that describes the image (i.e. David Banks headshot photo).
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Required. This will show up on article pages where person is added as an author and will show up in search.
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Enter the first name of the person for whom this page is about. Used for sorting.
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Enter the last name of the person for whom this page is about. Used for sorting.
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Select country code from dropdown menu. This will be used for geolocation integration.
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Select state code if creating a page for a U.S. state. This will be used for geolocation integration.
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Required. Enter the name of the person(s) who should receive notifications if a link or asset on the page is expiring - or if the page itself is set to expire.
Page Properties Resources
External Authors: Adding an External Author (TNC Biography Detail Page Template)
How to add an external author in AEM by creating a biography page fragment
Step 1) Create a new Bio Page in the Our People section and in the Name field, enter “External – First Last” (E.g. John Smith - External)
Step 2) Complete page properties in Bio Detail Tab and designate author as External
Step 3) Publish Page
When you build an article page on nature.org, you have the option to include an author byline and author component on the page if the article author has a bio in the system. The author component displays information about the author at the top and bottom of the page and is created and authored in the page properties when you add an author and choose not to hide the author component.
What if your author is not a staff or board member with a bio page?
You can still add an author (and author component) to your article page in page properties – and it is recommended that you do. In order to have this functionality, you will first need to create a bio page fragment for the external author by creating a new bio page and designating the author as “external”. This will not create a live page on nature.org.
Step 1) Create a New Bio Page
Following the steps you would take to create an typical biography page on nature.org, create a new bio page as a child page to the Our People aggregation page.
In the Sites console, navigate to and highlight the Our People page and click the blue Create button and select Page to open the page wizard.
Select the TNC Biography Detail Page Template and complete the required fields (Title, Page Title and Description). Make the Title and Page Title the name of the external author as you would want it to display. Create the new page and open the page in edit mode.
Step 2) Complete the Page Properties
In the page properties, complete the following fields:
- Name field (Basic Tab): E.g. John Smith - External
- This field is internal facing only, it will show in AEM when navigating through sections and you will see it in the drop down when selecting an author in page properties of an article page. Label your page external by using the naming convention: [First] [Last] - External
- Owner or Business Group field (Basic Tab): E.g. Magazine
- Select your business group
- Content Type field (Biography Detail Tab): Biography
- Select “Biography” (Biography should be the default value)
- Bio Job Title, Region field (Biography Detail Tab): E.g. Freelance Writer
- Enter the job title of your external author
- Select Author Type field (Biography Detail Tab): External
- When you select “External” for author type, this is where you are telling the system that you are not creating a live page on nature.org. This will also make certain previously required fields optional.
- Bio Headshot field (Biography Detail Tab) E.g., /content/dam/tnc/nature/en/photos/Smith_Bio.jpg
- If you include a headshot it will show in the author component at the top left of the page, beneath the hero and byline. Use the relative URL for a published photo in the DAM.
- Bio Short Description field (Biography Detail Tab)
- This is the description that will show in the author component on a published article. Make sure the short description is written exactly as you would like it to display on a live page.
- Bio First Name field (Biography Detail Tab): E.g. Brendan
- Enter the first name of the external author
- Bio Last Name field (Biography Detail Tab): E.g. Borrell
- Enter the last name of the external author
Step 3) Publish
As with any page or asset on AEM, the bio page will need to be published
- Save and close the page properties
- In page options menu, select “Start Workflow” and place the page into workflow as you would normally.
- In the workflow title note that you are publishing an external author bio page.
After following these steps, the name of your external author will appear in the dropdown list of authors when you add an author to the page properties of an article.
