Most of our websites have pages that list departmental personnel. If, in addition, you need for staff members to have personal pages within your site, the following guidelines apply.

We recommend that any staff members' sections that are larger than one page (or that could expand in the future) be created as Drupal Books, for the greatest ease of maintenance. Books are nice because they automatically generate navigation for you as you add and rearrange pages.

After a user has been added, hover your mouse over the "Content management" menu at the top of your screen, go to "Create content", then go to "Book page". On the page that follows, select "Staff" in the "Staff page assignment" box. This will ensure that the new page will show up under "/staff" in your site.

(Some of our older sites were not set up with this "Staff page assignment" feature. Contact us if you think you could use it.)

Before saving the new staff page, be sure to expand the "Authoring information" section of the form and add the user's user id (the short name) in the "Authored by" box.

You may wonder whether it would be easier to simply create a Book named "Staff" and add the users' pages as child pages of that book. We create separate books as described above in order to allow you to use a plain Drupal Page for your main roster page, so that, on this top-level page, you can do away with the book navigation (with staff members names and links to their pages) which would, in this instance, be redundant with the staff members' names in the center of the page. There is, unfortunately, no convenient way at the moment to selectively turn off the Book navigation on one particular page of a Book. Though the Book navigation is normally a huge benefit to everyone, in this case we want not to see it.