Create a new collection

  1. Go to the pulldown menu in the right upper corner and choose ECHO_collection
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  2. Fill in the following fields:
    • ID
      A name to identify the object consisting only of characters that are allowed in URLs.
      Notice: Appears only when you create the Object.
    • Title
      The title of the object.
      Notice: Please, don't use umlauts at the moment. In future it will be possible.
    • Lable
      The lable is a short form of the title. It appears in the side navigation bar.
    • Imagetag
      In the top navigation bar you can use an image as link.
      Notice: You have to give a complete image html tag, e.g. <img src=“images/test.jpg”>
    • Weight for sorting
      If in the object above there is defined sortfield: weight, then here you can specify the sortorder by defining a weight (1, 2 …). The smallest number appears on the top of the list.
      Notice: If you have more than nine objects, use 01, 02 … 99
    • Sortfield for subcollections
      Type in the field the objects contained in the collection are sorted by. By default this field is filled with weight.
    • Description (optional)
      Description of the collection.
    • Content-Type (optional)
      The type of content
    • Responsible (optional)
      The person who is responsible for this collection.
      Notice: For internal use only.
    • Secondary Link (optional)
      You can specify a second link for the collection. In the top navigation bar the second link appears below the link to the collection.
      On the ECHO website the “Graphical Overviews” are Secondary Links.
    • Title of Secondary Link (optional)
      The Title of the second link.
    • Background color (optional)
      You can specify a background color for your collection. The background color is used in the content part.
      Notice: This works only for collections not used as TopNavElements.
    • Coordinates
      Don't pay attention to this property, it has no meaning.
    • Credits (optional)
      You can choose one or more partner institutions for your collection. They are display below the title of the collection.
  3. Add.

The layout of collections used as topNavElements:

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The generic layout of collections used in Groups:

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