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  • GovCMS8 Site Building Training Manual
  • Contributing and Feedback Guide
  • Software and module requirements
  • UNIT 1: FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
    • Overview
    • Layout of a GovCMS page
    • Regions in GovCMS
    • Planning your site
    • About our client
    • Understanding requirements
    • Audience analysis
    • User (visitor) personas
    • Define user stories
    • Roles and Permissions
      • Exercise 1.1: Configure account settings
    • Blocks in GovCMS
      • Exercise 1.3: Place Welcome message block
    • Site navigation
    • Footers
      • Exercise 1.4: Build the related links menu
      • Exercise 1.5: Assign the related links menu block to a region
      • Exercise 1.6: Configure the related links menu block
      • Exercise 1.7: Rearrange the main menu
    • Theme settings
      • Exercise 1.8: Change the logo
      • Exercise 1.9: Create a friendly error page
    • Unit 1 Summary
  • UNIT 2: DESIGNING AND PLANNING CONTENT
    • Designing and planning content
      • Exercise 2.1: Compare content types
    • Planning your site structure
    • Planning data entry and display
    • Discussion
      • Exercise 2.2: Design a content type in minutes
      • Exercise 2.3: Create a content type
    • Add and configure fields
      • Exercise 2.5: Modify an existing field
      • Exercise 2.6: Add a custom text field
      • Exercise 2.7: Review the field list report
    • Manage form display
      • Exercise 2.8: Testing content types
    • Unit 2 Summary
  • UNIT 3: MANAGE MEDIA
    • Manage Media
    • Customise image display with image styles
    • Review configuration of image media display
      • Exercise 3.1: Example use of image styles
      • Exercise 3.2: Add and configure a media field
      • Exercise 3.3 (Challenge): Change image size
    • Unit 3 Summary
  • UNIT 4: TAXONOMY - CATEGORISING CONTENT
    • Taxonomy - Categorising content
      • Exercise 4.1: Add new Vocabulary
      • Exercise 4.2: Add Taxonomy field to content types
    • About input options
      • Exercise 4.3: Add fields to content types
      • Exercise 4.4: Test the new vocuabulary
    • Editorial considerations
    • Prepare documentation for new staff onboarding
    • Content creation forms
    • Unit 4 Summary
  • UNIT 5: TEXT FORMATS AND RICH TEXT
    • Text formats and rich text
      • Exercise 5.1 (Optional): Set up the Rich Text editor
      • Exercise 5.2 (Challenge): Create a new text format
    • About cross-site scripting
    • Text formats
    • Unit 5 Summary
  • UNIT 6: CONTENT LISTING WITH VIEWS
    • Content listing with Views
      • Exercise 6.1: Build the employment news view
    • Views - Part 2
      • Exercise 6.3: A customised News and Media page
      • Exercise 6.4: Reuse a Views template
    • Related content by term
      • Exercise 6.5: Make a list of States/Territories block
      • Exercise 6.6: Build the related content block
      • Exercise 6.7: Configure data field and Event content type
      • Exercise 6.8 (Challenge): Extend Content type
      • Exercise 6.9: Modify an event listing for future dates
    • Customize the content administration experience
      • Exercise 6.10: Administration with View bulk operations
    • Unit 6 Summary
  • UNIT 7: URL ALIASES
    • URL Aliases
      • Exercise 7.1: URL aliases - Patterns
    • URL Redirects
      • Exercise 7.2: Configure redirects
      • Exercise 7.3: Breadcrumbs
    • Menu check
    • Unit 7 Summary
  • UNIT 8: SITE BUILDING EXERCISES
    • Site building exercices workshop
    • Extend content types with new fields
      • Exercise 8.1: Add an external link field
    • Agency reference link
      • Exercise 8.2: Create Agency References
    • Job list dropdown filter
      • Exercise 8.3: Configure the job listing
      • Exercise 8.4: Agency logo in Job Posting view
      • Exercise 8.5: Challenge exercises
    • Discussion
    • Views contextual filters
      • Exercise 8.6: Add About author block to News article
    • Further discussion and exercices
    • Employee list and custom profiles
      • Exercise 8.7: Set up profile fields
      • Exercise 8.8: Create a list of users
      • Exercise 8.9: Edit the existing view to filter out roles
      • Exercise 8.10: Create a custom layout
      • Exercise 8.11 (Challenge): An image gallery
    • Unit Summary
    • Discussion
  • UNIT 9: SEARCH AND RELATED CONTENT
    • Search and related content
      • Exercise 9.1: Explore the default search
      • Exercise 9.2: Set up Job posting content type display in global search
      • Exercise 9.3: Create new search page with Search API
      • Exercise 9.4: Add fields to the index
      • Exercise 9.5: Extend the search with Facets
    • Unit Summary
  • UNIT 10: SITE PERFORMANCE
    • Overview
    • Planning for Peformance
    • Define Goals and Requirements
    • Review current issues and bottlenecks
    • Other performance considerations
    • Unit 10 Summary
    • Glossary of terms
    • Appendices
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  1. UNIT 1: FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
  2. Blocks in GovCMS

Exercise 1.3: Place Welcome message block

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Many websites contain a welcome message on the homepage. In this exercise you’ll learn how to place a block of content into a page and manage block visibility settings. You will also learn how blocks are placed into page regions.

The screenshot below displays some blocks being placed in various footer regions. You will build a similar block in this exercise.

Add a custom block

  1. Navigate to Structure → Block layout → Add custom block (/block/add).

  2. Select "Basic text with Image". Note, the options you see here will depend on the theme that your site is using and will most likely differ on your agency website.

  3. Fill out the form:

    • Block description: “Welcome to Government Jobs Portal”.

    • Body: “Government Jobs Portal is the official site to search and apply for jobs in the federal or state government. Be part of the bigger picture.”

  4. Click the Save button.

Place custom block

Navigate to Structure → Block layout and locate the "Footer top 1" region. Click the Place block button next to the Footer top 1 region name.

Locate the block you created, by searching for its name “Welcome to Government Jobs Portal”.

Assign block to region

Next, you’ll need to assign the block to an area on the site.

  1. Scroll down to the Region select element. Select Footer Top.

  2. Finally, configure the block’s Visibility settings so the Welcome Message block only appears on the homepage.

  3. Under the Pages section of the visibility settings.

    • Select the Show for the listed pages radio button.

    • Following the screenshot below, enter the text <front> in the Pages field. This will make sure the block is only displayed on the front (home) page of your site. Leave the other settings as-is.

  4. Save the block.

After the page is saved, you’ll be redirected to the Block Layout page. If you have multiple blocks assigned to the same region (such as Footer top 1), these can be rearranged on that page. Press the Save blocks button.

Now go to the homepage of your site and view your new welcome message/block in the footer.

Tip: Blocks aren’t content so they won’t be displayed in the content listing. To view all custom blocks go to Structure → Block layout → Custom block library .

Showing Blocks in the various footer regions
Entering data into the block creation page
Block configuration page
Block configuration page
New block being seeing in the Footer top 1 region