How Do I Work with Locations?

Navigate to our DX Training Video guide for further visual guidance.

Purpose

The Location page is designed to create pages for physical locations, such as office addresses, public facilities, or service centers.

When to Use Location Page

This content type is ideal for situations where you need to provide information about a physical location, including:

  • Agency Offices: Showcase your agency's main office or branch locations within your site in the footer and within search results of listing pages of locations.
  • Public Facilities: Provide information on public facilities like Department of Motor Vehicles offices, veteran service centers, libraries, etc.
  • Service Centers: List locations for medical facilities, polling stations, sanitation plants, or other service centers.
Location

Elements of Location Page

  • Address Information: Include details like street address, city, state, and zip code. Make sure for the first row you include the street address number and not the building name in order for the address to properly show up within the map embed.
  • Contact Information: Provide phone number, email address, and website (if applicable).
  • Areas Served Field: Use the "Areas Served" field to specify counties or regions. This setting can be used to filter locations on listing pages, making it easier for users to find relevant locations based on service areas.
  • Hours of Operation: Specify opening and closing hours for the location.
  • Map Visibility: Be aware that map integrations might not display correctly during development on "pantheonsite.io" domains. Allow a few days for Google Maps to update after site migration to your "iowa.gov" domain.
  • Optional Elements: You can add descriptions, photos, or other relevant information about the location.
decorative
Location fields 2

Adding a physical address displays this information on an individual location in the right sidebar.

Hours of operation also carry to the right-hand sidebar, including an indication of if the office is open or closed.

Temporarily Closed is an option.

Create Clickable Phone Numbers

You can add the number of your location turn it into a link that mobile users can select and initiate a call. A simple method to do this is to select edit within your location and then highlight the number and use the linkit tool and add the text "tel:" and then your locations number.

Example of linking a phone number:

example of how to link a phone number
1

Navigate to the Content tab

You can add pages to your website by navigating to the content button but make sure you are logged in so that you can have access to that tab.

decorative

You can sort the pages that you've created using the filter button as well as edit the pages you've created for your website by selecting the edit button within the content list page:

(Example of Content list page)

decorative
2

Create a new Location content type

From the Content Tab you can select the Location type and this is where you will enter the location’s details, address, hours open, if the location is temporarily closed.

You can also include the optional “Areas Served” field. If left as “None,” this location will show in general area searches on the listing page.

Location fields 1

The Location title field becomes the Title of the location.

The Location Type field appears as an eyebrow above the title.

Location Types are a type of taxonomy vocabulary, managed by Taxonomy Managers.

Areas Served pull from a pre-built list of counties.

You can also add other details such as images and other additional and relevant information about your agency location.

Location fields 3

Adding an image will help visitors navigate to the entranceway of the location.
Details and related links will help with any additional information for how to enter the location such as access codes, front desk checking procedures, or reservation requests.