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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.
- 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.
Elements of Location Page
- Address Information: Include details like street address, city, state, and zip code.
- Contact Information: Provide phone number, email address, and website (if applicable).
- 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.
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:
Log in to your site
Everyone who writes things on this website has a special title. These titles give them certain abilities, like who can edit, review and publish what. You can ask for a different title or take one away from someone using the user manager.
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.
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)
Create a new Location content type
Navigate to Content | Add Content | Location, and insert the details related to the location.
Note that the Location "Type" is optional and may be controlled by a user with Taxonomy Manager privileges, it is handled inside Structure | Taxonomy | Location Type. Typically we've seen location types be quite varied such as: "Office" or "Medical Facility" or even a designation such as "Public Reservations Accepted." Learn more about Taxonomy.
Other content added to the Location content type includes the Areas Served (by county), image (typically this is an image of the front door of your building), address, hours open, if the location is temporarily closed.
Editing, Publishing, Scheduling Content
Authors will have the ability to edit content based on different privileges.
Here is a table that demonstrates what each author type or content managers can do:
| Writer | Editor | Publisher | Agency Manager | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Create this content | X | X | X | X |
| Edit own content | X | X | X | X |
| Edit anyone's content | X | X | X | |
| Publish this content | X | X | ||
| Unpublish this content | X | X | ||
| Delete own content | ||||
| Delete anyone's content | ||||
| Schedule this content | X | X |
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