How to create Embedded facts and figures

Create Embedded Facts and figures to display a combination of facts and images embedded within another content type, such as a Web page. By default, the carousel option is enabled and will scroll through the facts and figures depending on your settings, however if you disable the carousel option, the Facts and figures will appear vertically, one after the other.To see an example of Embedded Facts and figures (using the carousel option), visit our Waterloo Content Management System (WCMS) users page.

Note: Content Authors cannot create Embedded Facts and figures.

Known issue:

• The only supported bubble background colour choice is "Grey", even though "Black" and "White" are provided options. Black and white are not supported at this time.

Create an Embedded Facts and figures

1. Select My Workbench from the Administration bar.

   

2. Select Create/Manage Content.

   

3. Select Embedded Facts and figures.

   

4. Enter a Title for the Facts and figures.

   

5. Select Add new Fact/Figure.

   

6. Choose whether to Show bubble on your Facts and figures.

   

7. Choose a Default colour that will be used in the text types of big and medium.

8. Choose a Text alignment.

   

Adding Fact point(s)

This is what a fact point can look like:

1. Under Fact point(s), multiple points can be added. Use cross arrows to rearrange multiple fact points.

2. If you would like to use an Icon with your fact, click Browse, select the icon from your computer, and click Upload.

   1. Note: Icons with a transparent background are ideal.

      

3. If you uploaded an Icon with your fact, ensure Alternative text is included.

   

4. Enter Text for the Fact point.

   

5. Select the Type of text from the drop-down menu.

   

6. Select Add another item to add more text to your Fact point.

   

7. If you would like to use a caption, enter it in the Caption section. You can also leave this section blank, if a caption is not necessary.

   

8. The Add another item to add additional Fact points to this group.

   

9. Save.

10. Publish.

Embed the Facts and figures on a Web page or other content type

The node ID can be found by hovering the cursor over the 'Edit' tab and noting the number after "node" at the bottom left of the browser window,

or by looking in the URL address bar after clicking Edit.

The Embedded Facts and figures can be embedded into the body field of another content type, e.g a Web page.

1. Place the cursor where the Embedded Facts and figures should be embedded and select the Add/Edit Facts and figures icon from the editing toolbar.

   

2. Enter the Embedded Facts and figures node ID (just the number) in the Facts and Figures field, and choose whether you would like to use a carousel, and if so, how many to be displayed at
   once. See image below for example of what the carousel settings look like.

   

3. Save.

4. Publish.

Other site templates

Conference

The Embedded Facts and figures content type is not available for this template.

Publication

The Embedded Facts and figures content type is not available for this template.

Single page

The Embedded Facts and figures content type is available for this template and follows the same steps as outlined above.