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The DirectoryBox Tool is a simple yet powerful
Web browser-based tool that any MCPS webmaster or
editor can use to easily and quickly capture the
MCPS Phone Directory content for a school or department
on his or her Web site. All content is managed using
the Phone Directory tool by the local Phone Directory
Manager.
- The school or office webmaster uses the DirectoryBox
Tool to display their MCPS Directory content
on the local school or department Web site.
- The webmaster creates the server side include within
the site page to display the DirectoryBox generated
by the tool. This is a one-time activity.
- The primary user of the DirectoryBox is the Web
site visitor who views the Directory contents for
the school or department without leaving the school
or department site.
The DirectoryBox tool enables any MCPS webmaster
to display MCPS Staff Directory content -- including departments, names, position titles, and email addresses -- for their
location on any page within his or her site. Thus web visitors can find this information for your school without leaving the school site. See sample
DirectoryBox.
The webmaster simply adds an include command to the
page where the MCPS Directory content is to be displayed.
Directory data is published nightly to a text file.
Code you’ve
inserted in your page’s
HTML file
pulls the contents of the text file into the page you
see in your browser. Updated directory information would appear on the next day.
No, you don't need an account to use the DirectoryBox.
All you need to know is your five-digit location number.
This is displayed in the top section of your school's
staff directory list.
Webmasters do not update the directory information. The
MCPS Staff Directory is maintained by your local Phone
Directory Manager. At a school, this is usually the administrative
secretary. For offices, it's usually someone at the Office
level who maintains the directory for all departments
within that office. You can identify who is your location's
Phone Directory Manager in the online MCPS
Staff Directory
at the Phone
Directory Managers link at the bottom of
the left navigation list in the Directory.
If they need assistance with updating, they can contact
the MCPS Help Desk.
Departments listed in the MCPS Staff Directory are defined
by the Phone Directory Manager.
At this time there is no application (like a NewsBox
or CalendarBox) to change the styling preferences for
the DirectoryBox. However, you can easily add CSS to
your page or to your external style sheet defining
styles for the content classes of moduleheader, moduleLink,
and moduleBody2 used in the DirectoryBox content.
View source of the sample
page to see an example of
this.
We recommend you put the DirectoryBox
on your staff page.
Copy and paste the following code into your page in
the area where you wish to include your DirectoryBox
display.
<!--#include file="/schools/schooldir/99999directoryV2.txt"-->
replacing 99999 with your 5 digit school location
code (such as 03237directoryV2.txt for Frost MS or 02101directoryV2.txt
for Clarksburg ES)
To add text formatting as shown on the sample page attach the directory style sheet to your page. You can do this by attaching the /global/directory.css stylesheet or by adding this line of code in the source code view within the <head> section.
<link href="/global/directory.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
IMPORTANT NOTE: Your page name must have the .shtm
suffix instead of .htm or .html for the #include to
work -- e.g. directory.shtm or about.shtm. If you're
changing the name of your file from directory.html,
you may also need to use a redirect. See how to make
a redirect for
more information on this topic.
Contact the Web Services Team at webmaster@mcpsmd.org.
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