NB the policy page type is currently only for Barnardo’s intranet policies such as Adoption leave and pay policy, not to be confused with main-site policy and influencing content.
Until further notice, don’t use policy page type for the main site. We still need to rethink/revise how publications are stored, surfaced, listed, etc. on the main site. Perhaps as drupal pages with downloads? Or as floating PDFs in some sort of filterable bucket list? and we'll need to factor in those that need payment (currently only available in policy page type).
Policy page also needs further development and/or a change of name. For example, the resource type dropdown includes a lot of things that aren’t policies.
Until further notice, if using this page type, use it like a standard page – all the usual components are available (see Page fields and components) except you should also select a resource type (above) and you can add a byline, purchase url and price.
These fields would be useful for some Barnardo’s publications that users have to pay for, but they’re usually research papers, not policies.
If you just ignore these fields they don’t appear on the published page.
If this becomes the page type for publications such as research reports (paid-for and free ones) on the main site, it will behave very much like a standard page in the CMS but will have a different look and feel to most content pages.
Don’t use a banner image.
Make the page title the same as the publication ONLY IF it’s short, frontloaded (see Page title) and meaningful. If not, create a better page title.
For example, the short publication title ‘Time for change’ gives the user no idea what the publication is about, but the full title ‘Time for change: planning a route to improved wellbeing for young people leaving care’ is just too long. The solution is to write a short meaningful title such as ‘Better support for care leavers’ and for searchability enter the full publication title in the heading field of the text block and incorporate it in the teaser.
Write a brief blurb in the body text setting out what the publication is about. DON’T just copy a chunk of the publication into the body text.
Add the publication to the associated downloads field on the right-hand side of the edit page in the usual way (see Download document)