Creating and Modifying Exhibits¶

The Libraries currently uses Spotlight for exhibit curation. This document will explain how to create a new exhibit with the features that are currently in use.

Item and Item Curation¶

Standard Features and Widgets¶

Heading¶

This adds an <h2/>`with an embedded :code:`<p/> with text to the screen.

Text¶

This adds a block for text in <p/> tags.

List¶

This adds an unordered list.

Quote¶

This adds a block quote.

IFRAME¶

This allows you to embed an <iframe/> to pull content from another website.

Video¶

This allows you to add a <video/> canvas that points at a video file or a youtube video.

Embed + Text¶

This widget embeds a web resource and a text block to the left or right of it.

Horizontal Rule¶

Adds a horizontal divider to a page.

Uploaded Item Row¶

This widget displays uploaded items in a horizontal row. Optionally, you can add a heading and/or text to be displayed adjacent to the items.

Exhibit Item Features and Widgets¶

Browse Categories¶

This widget highlights browse categories. Each highlighted category links to the corresponding browse category results page.

Requires browse configuration.

Browse Group Categories¶

This widget displays all browse categories associated with a selected browse group as a horizontally-scrolling row. Each selected browse group is displayed as a separate row. Each displayed category in a group links to the corresponding browse category results page.

Requires browse configuration.

Saved Searches¶

This widget highlights saved searches. Each highlighted saved search links to the search results page generated by the saved search parameters. Any saved search listed on the Curation > Browse Categories page, whether published or not, can be highlighted as a saved search.

Requires exhibit-specific search fields.

Pages¶

This widget highlights pages from this exhibit. Each highlighted item links to the corresponding page.

Item Row¶

This widget displays exhibit items in a horizontal row. Optionally, you can add a heading and/or text to be displayed adjacent to the items.

Item Carousel¶

This widget displays exhibit items in a carousel. You can configure the item captions, how the images are cycled, and the size of the carousel.

Item Embed¶

This widget embeds exhibit items on a page. Optionally, you can add a heading and/or text to be displayed adjacent to the items.

Item Slideshow¶

This widget displays exhibit items in a static slideshow. The user will move between items in the slideshow using the field you select as the primary caption.

Item Grid¶

This widget displays exhibit items in a multi-row grid. Optionally, you can add a heading and/or text to be displayed adjacent to the items.

Search results¶

This widget displays a set of search results on a page. Specify a search result set by selecting an existing browse category. You can also select the view types that are available to the user when viewing the result set.

TAMU Widgets¶

WYSIWYG¶

Adds a WYSIWYG editor so you don’t need many elements listed above.