Research project/group

Description

A research project/group page shall provide a comprehensive picture of research at the University of Gothenburg. The page shall provide examples of current research and fields in which the university excels. This page should make it easy to find researchers, research projects, research groups and research centres. All pages of this type will be gathered under the “Find research” search page at gu.se, regardless of which web space has created the page.

This content type can be created by both web editors and content editors.

Do as follows:

To create a Research article/portrait page, switch to the “Content” tab in the top left.
Click the “Research project/group” link.
Click the “+ Add Research project/group”.
Language
Swedish is the default language version, although you can also choose to create an English version of your page first by selecting “English” from the drop-down list in the “Language” field.
Research name
Enter the name of the project or group in the “Research name” field (required).
Project in brief
Write a short introductory text about the project in the “Project in brief” field (required).
Research group
Select “Research group” or “Research project” in the “Research type” field (required).
Status
Select “Current research” or “Completed research” in the “Status” field (required).
Area
Specify one or more categories in the “Area” field. The categories are popular science-based and are intended to help visitors to find both research information and the organisational parts of the website:
“Sustainability & environment”, “Health & medicine”, “Culture & language”, “Science & IT”, “Society & economics” and “Education & learning”.
Topic
Specify a topic in the “Topic” field (required). The content will be tagged with the Swedish national publication categories for research (GUP) complemented with topics within the arts.
Facts (some fields are required)
The “Facts” tab (required) enables you to add more details about the project.
1. Project size in SEK
  Specify the scope in Swedish kronor in the “Project size in SEK” field.
2. Project duration
  Specify the length of the project in the “Project duration” field, choosing the years from the “From year” and “To year” drop-down lists.
3. Project owner
  Specify the project owner in the “Project owner” field (required).
4. Funded by
  Specify the funder in the “Funded by” field.
5. Partners
  You can use the “Partners” tab to add one or more project partners.
  1. URL
    Specify the URL in the “URL” field.
  2. Link text
    Enter the link text for the link in the “Link text” field.
  3. Add more alternatives
    Click the “Add more alternatives” button to add more partners.
  4. Show row weights
    To change the order of the links, click the “Show row weights” link on the left.
6. Website
  You can use the “Website” tab to add the different project websites.
  1. URL
    Enter the URL of the group or project in the “URL” field on the “Website” tab.
  2. Add more alternatives
    Click the “Add more alternatives” button to add more partners.
  3. Show row weights
    To change the order of the links, click the “Show row weights” link.
Header image/video
The “Header image/video” tab allows you to add a header image or a header video at the top of the page.Video cover
Add an image to be used as a cover image for the video before it’s played in the “Video cover” field (required). Click the grey “Open image library” button. See the instructions under 8a.
1. Header image
  Click the grey “Open image library” button.
  1. You can now choose one of the links: “Browse existing images” (pre-selected), “Shared image library” or “Upload new image”.
  2. Select image
    To select a previously uploaded image, click the image (green checkmark) and then the blue “Select image” button in the lower left.
  3. Alt text and Image text
    Once you’ve chosen an image, you need to complete the “Alt text” field (required) and the image text for the image in the “Image text” field. Images which are purely decorative or carry no information are not, however, to have an alt text, so enter <none> in the text field.
2. Header video
  Click the grey “Add Video” button. If you’ve added both a header image and a header video, the video will be shown.
  1. Title
    Enter the video title in the “Title” field (required).
  2. Video URL
    Paste a link from, for example, YouTube, Vimeo or GU Play in the “Video URL” field (required).
  3. Video length
    Enter the length of the video in the “Video length” field (required).
  4. Video cover
    Add an image to be used as a cover image for the video before it’s played in the “Video cover” field (required). Click the grey “Open image library” button. See the instructions under 8a
  5. Create video
    Click the grey “Create video” button to save the settings or “Cancel” to return to the main tabs.
Blurb settings
The “Promo settings” tab enables you to upload an alternative image for the promo, which is shown instead of the header image. If you have a header video on the page and you upload an image here, this image will be used in the promo (otherwise the promo will use a background colour).
1. Blurb image
  Click “Promo image” to upload an alternative image for the promo, which is to be shown instead of the header image. If you have a header video on the page and you upload an image here, this image will be used in the promo (otherwise the promo will use a background colour).
  Click the grey “Open image library” button. See the instructions under 8a.
2. Blurb heading
  To ensure that the news article looks good when you create a promo for it, enter a shorter heading in the “Promo heading” field.
3. Blurb introduction
  When a news article is used in a promo, the normal introduction is used. This is often long, so it’s cut short by the system and followed by an ellipsis (…). Here you can enter a shorter introduction in the “Promo introduction” field that will be used in the promo.
By default, the page is set to “Draft” and isn’t published.
1. To publish the page, select “Published” from the “Save as” drop-down list and click “Save”.
2. If you want to preview the page before publishing it, you can save it as a “Draft”. To save a draft of the page, select “Draft” from the “Save as” drop-down list and click “Save”.
3. Once the page is published, you can change the page status to “Unpublished”.