Author: Megan Ross

Data tables present tabular information in a grid. They are made up of columns and rows that communicate the meaning of the information and relationships between data. There are several options for styling your data in tables to allow for a clean, visually appealing look.

The use of HTML tables is reserved for displaying data in an organized manner. It is not proper to use table code to control webpage layout or design. To display content on your webpage in multiple columns, please refer to the Boxed Sections Snippets or the List Spread Buttons Snippet. 

The Approval Workflow in OU Campus is an optional function that a department can use when creating or editing content that needs approval from someone else before being published. This process allows the item to remain checked out to a user throughout the process until it has been completed—either published or reverted back to the previous version. Keeping content checked out is important so that the item is not published unintentionally before it should be.

• The item goes from being checked out to the editor to being checked out by the approver and possibly back to the editor depending on what the approver selects.
• The approver can deny the changes or publish/approve them.
  • The approver must have CMS access, but could have view-only access or edit access. An approver with edit access could publish the changes if approved, with view-only access the approver can only approve the content and return the item to the first person for publishing if approved.
• OU Campus will send an email notification to the approver letting them know you have sent them something. This email can include a custom message from you.

Departments who produce regular newsletters or magazines are able to use the Michigan Tech Magazine template to digitally display their publications on their departmental website. You can refer to the Biological Sciences Newsletters as an example. Interested departments should contact cmshelp@mtu.edu to get setup. Once your site has been set up and your CMS users given access, you can follow these instructions to add future publications.

This snippet allows you to create a link or button on the page that opens a pop-up window displaying text. The pop-up can include headings, links, and images.

This snippet will create an image with text beneath it. The image can be left or right aligned so body content wraps around it if it is not the full content area width or center or left aligned with no wrapping. If you have cropped an 800 size or larger of the image being displayed, the system will automatically include a pop-up of the image and caption.

Use this snippet to display a feed of news, blog posts, or events on your page. You can combine multiple feeds. This snippet includes a styled heading and the option for buttons or social media links in the heading. This is an advanced function.

This snippet allows you to enter multiple pieces of content in a region that will rotate on the live site each time a user refreshes the page. The content that displays is chosen randomly from each piece of content entered.

This snippet is used to embed charts on your page from a data source such as Google Sheets. You can select from various chart types and include a chart title and axis titles.

Interactive images, where the user can move around in the image to view the scene from every angle, 360 photos are becoming more widespread and easier to create. You can embed them on your OU Campus CMS website in the upper page image or within the body content.

This snippet is used to list one person on a page with different format options. You must first create a Personnel Information item for the person.