Have you tried to create a dynamic directory of all your faculty, staff or employees and not quite been able to pull it off? Using a combination of XSLT and Velocity (mainly because I didn't know any better) we did. Best of all, each of our faculty can update their own page and the information automatically updates on each of our faculty lists. When implemented correctly, this directory takes the work of keeping info current and up to date off the developer, and puts it in the hands of the ones who actually have the information!

1. CREATING A DYNAMIC
ONLINE DIRECTORY
P H I L L I P C O X WE L L @ P H I L P E P E

2. WHAT WE HAD

3. WHAT WE HAD
• 5 Departments (Biology, Chemistry,
Geology/Geography, Mathematics, Physics)
• Over 150 Faculty
• Updates – Emailed them uploaded
• Pages were:
• Unorganized
• Out of date
• Unnecessary Burden

4. WHAT WE HAVE

5. WHAT WE HAVE
• Each faculty member has a department page.
• Each page uses a standard layout, but is flexible for
departments
• Each department has a correct and up to date list
of all faculty.
• All pages are in one central location.
• Updates handled by departments/faculty so
burden is spread instead of being on one person

6. WHAT WE HAVE?

7. WHAT WE HAVE
• Main Faculty Folder
• Each department has
a folder
• Each Faculty has a
folder under each
department
• Faculty Folders consist
of Index page, photo
folder and optional
Research page folder
• They can also link to
their research page

8. WHAT WE HAVE
• Each department has
a Faculty Index Page.
• This page pulls info from
each faculty page
within the departments
folder.
• Creates a dynamic
and up to date list of all
faculty.
• List changes as
individual pages are
changed.

9. HOW WE DID IT

10. WHAT WE HAVE
• Built the Individual
Faculty Pages
• Built separate Asset
Factories for each
department
• Data Definition,
Configuration Set and
Content type are all
specific to each
department.
• Faculty can link to their
“Research” or “Lab”
pages from here.

11. HOW WE DID IT
• One Index page for each department
• Pulls the needed info from each faculty member’s
page/folder and organizes it.
• Used Velocity for the formatting
• Some also have page organized by research area
• Built to fit each department
• ZERO UPDATING!

12. DEMO

13. QUESTIONS

14. Phillip Coxwell
Email: coxwept@auburn.edu
Twitter: @philpepe