Drupal CMS: Create people profiles

Learn to pull some data from UCL Profiles into a Drupal People Profile page.

New UCL Profiles system replacing IRIS, 14 September 2023

UCL is introducing a new public profiles system to replace our current service, IRIS. The new system will be known as UCL Profiles. It will be the public layer of an expanded RPS service.

This will change the way Drupal People pages work, the instructions on this page reflect the way the UCL Profiles will work with Drupal after the launch.

Instructions

In Drupal we will continue to pull some basic people data from UCL Profiles. This includes the person's title, name, job title, department, faculty as well as basic contact information and a link to their individual profile on UCL Profiles

Our policy is to support UCL People profiles (not specially created Drupal pages) to ensure a single source of truth about academic staff and their publications. The staff profile does not appear in the left menu but will appear in a people section e.g ucl.ac.uk/site-name/people/staff-name

Staff and website editors can add additional Drupal content and links in the flexible sidebar space on the right. All other data comes directly from UCL Profiles and should be maintained in RPS as before.

Please note: Any changes made on a UCL Profiles page can take up to 24 hours to to reflect on the Drupal page.

Step 1 - get the UPI from the UCL Staff Directory

Go to the UCL Staff Directory Service. You need to be logged in to view the individual's UPI
Search for the researcher using their name and copy their UPI from their profile

Step 2 - create a People profile page in Drupal

Click on Content and then Add content and then select 'People profile'
Under 'Title' add the researcher's name
Under 'UPI' add the UPI of the researcher which you should have copied from the staff directory
Add any extra information in the Sidebar (this will appear below the information from the UCL Profiles)
Click save, this will save a draft of the page

Step 3 - link the profile page to the researcher

Ensure you are in editing mode
Go the page where you have the name of the researcher
Select the name
Create an internal link to the researcher. Please see the how to guide for hyperlinking if you need guidance
Save and/or publish the page

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