🛠️Uniweb Launchpad
Uniweb Launchpad is a separate tool used to create and manage Uniweb networks that also allows you to modify the sections and fields within profiles. This is how you can create custom sections to be used in websites.
However, PDD tries to minimize the effort researchers must spend creating their websites, so try to avoid an abundance of website-specific sections as this can diminish the utility of automatically generated websites if researchers still have to spend time filling out all these custom sections.
For example, if you wanted a short description (200 characters) for one of the pages in your template you have two options:
Add a new "Short Description" section
Use a rule to limit the description to 200 characters with an option to read more
While at the end of the day, the choice is yours, the better option is to use a rule to limit it because the short description has no other use on the profile since you would have a short description followed by a long one.
When done right, adding sections to a profile for websites will also benefit the profile as well
Say for example in current teaching. By default, the section only has course name, role, URL and office hours. In the example below, you can see that course code, course level, and description would have to be added to the section, but it provides more information and is also beneficial to the profile since that information isn't already being captured.
As you can imagine, this section would look pretty bare without that information, you would only get the title. This is what a good expansion of the profile sections would look like.
You can also change which fields are required or not in Launchpad
You should try not to make every field required though as sometimes researchers really don't have that information and will be forced to input something that isn't correct or not complete. There are no hard set rules, just like the rest of this guide but try to make sure that everyone would have this information.
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