The Employee Database Block
How It Works
The employee database and its API Plugin are tools that can be used in conjunction with one another to display information about employees in campus departments. This page will walk you through using the Employee Database block on your page to display employee information.
Instructions
- Create the "Employee Database" block and add it to your site.
- Go to "Add Content" > "Blocks" > "Row Blocks" and select the "Employee Database" Block.
- and click on the API Helper option in the upper right menu.
- Select the "School" or "College" you are looking for.
- Select the "Department" you are looking for.
- Select the "Type" of employee you are looking for.
- Select the "Tag" associated with that employee Note: Some departments don't use tags, the query will revert to "Type" if this is the case.
- Take note of the numerical values of the School/College, Department, Type and Tag produced by the API.
- Back in Cascade, edit the "Employee Database" block you created. Enter the information generated from the API into the appropriate fields.
- Submit your changes and publish the page containing the block.
Breakdown of the API codes.
- School ID: Each school within the database is referenced by a unique ID.
- Department ID: In combination with the school ID, this identifies your department within the Faculty Database.
- ID(s): Each person in the system is associated with a personnel "type" (Professor, Adjunct, Staff, etc.), and you can filter by these IDs.
- Tag ID(s): Some departments choose to further categorize by research area or specialty with tags.
