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You will need this information when you want to use a collection tile or portlet.

What is the collection tile/portlet?

A collection tile/portlet is an automatically populating tile that will constantly keep itself up to date with the content that you would like to show on it so that you do not have to make manual updates. The collection tile/portlet is able to aggregate multiple different types of content from across your website. For example, you may wish for the tile/portlet to pull in all items of content that are tagged with a specific category on your website.


Link to the feature on the HaikuHQ

Adding content into the Collections tile:

  1. To add a collections tile:
    1. Navigate to the cover page or location where you would like to add the collection tile (make sure that you are logged in with the appropriate permissions).

    1. In the 'Layout' view, add the tile to the location on the cover page that you want it to display
    2. Save the updated layout and then navigate into the compose view to edit the tile.

  2. To add a collections portlet:
    1. Navigate to the location where you would like to add the collection portlet (make sure that you are logged in with the appropriate permissions).

    1. Navigate to the 'Manage portlets' screen (using the drop-down menu from your name on the right of the edit bar).
    2. Using either primary or secondary portlets (dependant on the display option and content types you are using) select 'Collection' form the drop down.

Once you have added a collection tile or a portlet, the fields are the same:

  1. 'Content' tab:
      1. This defines how many items the tile will show, useful if you want to have a scrollable list.
  2. 'Filters' tab:
    1. 'Path'
      1. Enter the path of a section relative to the site root. This will determine where specifically the content can be aggregated from if blank it will pick up tagged content from all across the site.
    2. 'Depth'
      1. Enter how many levels in the structure should be included in the searching. Leave empty for no limit.
    3. 'Categories'
      1. Use these to define what content you want to pull into the tile, based on its tags. If you have duplicated tags across multiple content types, e.g. 'Research' category for both news and events content type, this has been merged and will pull both, until you define the content types below.
    4. 'Type of content'
      1. This field allows you to define which content types are pulled into the tile and manages this with the other available filters.
    5. 'Review state'
      1. This field allows you to define whether you as a logged in editor will also see new or hidden items of content in the list. These items still will not show to external visitors.
    6. 'Sort on'
      1. This field gives you options for how to sort the data in the collection list.
    7. 'Sort order'
      1. This allows you to define the order of the items in the collection listing.
  3. 'Button' tab:
    1. 'Internal link'
      1. If you choose an internal and an external link, the internal link will take priority.
    2. 'External link'
      1. This should be a fully formed URL including 'https'.
    3. 'Button text'
      1. This is the text that will appear on the button. If you do not provide text, default text will be shown e.g. 'Find out more'.
    4. 'Button alignment'
      1. This defines where on the listing the button will be located
    5. 'Button type'
      1. This defines what kind of button you want to show.
  4. 'Style' tab:
    1. 'Box Border'
    2. 'Box type'











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