Page Properties

Manage Page Properties

Navigate to the page you want to work with or for which you want to set the Page Properties.  Click Page Properties. The current Page Properties gets displayed.

Page Title:  Enter or edit the Page Title.
Meta Keywords and Meta Description: 

• A meta keyword is a tag (that is, a coding statement) in the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) that describes some aspect of the contents of a Web page.
• Search engines use the information you provide in a meta tag to index a page so that someone searching for the kind of information the page contains finds it. The meta keyword is at the heading near the top of the HTML of a Web page.
• There are several kinds of meta tags, but the most important for search engine indexing is the keyword meta tags and the description meta tag (meta description).
  
  • The keyword meta tag lists the words or phrases that best describe the contents of the page.
  • The meta description includes a brief one or two-sentence description of the page.
  • Search engines use both the keywords and the description in adding a page to their index. Some search engines also use the description to show the searcher a summary of the page's contents.
  • Although most search engines also use the contents of a page to determine how to index it, the creator of a Web page should be sure to include meta tags with appropriate keywords and descriptions.
  •  NOTE:  Well-written meta tags can help make the page rank higher in search results.

Meta Page Type: Choose the type of page/site (e.g., non-profit, school, university)
Meta Image URL: Upload an image for thumbnail display when the page is shared on social media or found in a search engine.  (Images must be at least 200x200 pixels.  Square images work best, but images up to 3 times as wide as tall are allowed.  Be sure to test the image on the various social media sites to determine what works best for you.) Visit the Images in Link Shares page or Best Open Graph Image Size page for more information. 
Meta Video: Upload a video for social media display. This can be used in conjunction with the Meta Image URL and would default to the video when the page is shared on social media unless it is not supported on the device, then the image should instead. (Max file size allowed is 10.00 MB, and file extension allowed is .mp4.) This functionality is only available with the Scoreboards Social Web feature.

OpenGraph Tags in Encompass Content Management System Page Properties allow for an improved and more consistent posting of information from Encompass to social media arenas that use OpenGraph (Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest). You must set OpenGraph tags for each page individually.

The OpenGraph (og) tags include:

• Page Title - (og:title) Page Title that will display in social media.
• Meta Description - (og:description) A brief one or two-sentence description of the page.
• Meta Page Type - (og:type) Choose the type of page/site (e.g., non-profit, school, university)
• Meta Image URL - (og:image) Upload an image for thumbnail display.  (Images must be at least 200x200 pixels. Square images work best, but images up to 3 times as wide as tall are allowed.  Be sure to test the image on the various social media sites to determine what works best for you.)
• Site Name - (og:site_name) Your community name. (Configured by Encompass.)

The Audience for the page gets visible. Make changes if necessary.  Select if you want Everyone to view the page, only those logged in or who meet a certain role.

Advanced Options

  NOTE:  Depending on your administrative rights, you may not see all of the options discussed below.

• The Current Template shows the name of the template. The to the right of the dropdown allows you to see what the template looks like.
• The Children Template dropdown provides you with the other options to select. Theto the right of the dropdown allows you to see what the template looks like.
• Display Text allows you to enter alternate text for the Page Title. This gets displayed in the navigation.
• The Redirect to box allows you to put in the URL address of where the page should redirect people. 
• The Target dropdown allows you to select whether the page should open in the Same Window or a New Window.
• Link Style will change the appearance of the link. 
  NOTE:  You must have knowledge of the style sheets for the website in order to be able to know what to put in this area.
• Custom HTML Tag Attributes allow you to specify style attributes or any other attribute to be used by the navigation system.
• If you check the box  Make This a Header Only (not a link), the page will be a header instead of a link.
  • Making a page a header-only (not a link) provides organization to the site nav and is useful if you don’t want people to actually be able to click on and go to a page. This option is ideal for parent pages that you don’t want people to actually be able to link to, but just want to use to categorize the child pages beneath it.
• If you check the box to  Exclude This Page from Navigation, it will hide the page.  This can be used for seasonal pages, for a page that is under construction, or for system pages that you don't use.
• If you check the box to  Exclude All Navigation from This Page, it will remove the navigation from the page.  This can be used to force action and restrict user navigation options. The navigation bar will not be available, but the back button will still be enabled.  For example, you may want to provide links on the page to manage constituents where can go.

Click Save when have finished updating the Page Properties.