Configuring Catalog Display Settings

1. From your homepage, select Courses > Settings > Organization & Display.
2. In the Catalog section, review and apply the settings that are relevant to your catalog setup.
   • Default Display Type and Options: Choose one of the three options for displaying your content (grid, list, or calendar).
   • Enabled Display Options: You can also give learners the ability to choose their preferred display type, which allows learners to view content in a list view, grid view, or calendar view.
   • Default Sort Order Options: Choose from one of six options to sort your content (last updated, most recent, title, publish date, start date, or relevance).
     • Last updated: Sort content items by the date they were last updated and published
     • Most recent: Sort items by when they were created
     • Title: Sort content alphabetically by content title
     • Publish date: Sort content by the date it was published
     • Start date: Sort content by its access start date

     • Relevance: Sort by the word a learner uses in a keyword search. We recommend always having this sort order enabled for experiences with search available. For example, if a learner searches for "bananas", if the catalog is sorted alphabetically, it will sort the results alphabetically instead of by relevance (e.g. where "bananas" is included in the content title).

       Note

       If there is nothing to judge relevance on, like no search query for example, the platform will use last updated date as the sort order.

   • Enabled Sort Options: You can give learners the ability to choose their preferred sort order in the catalog, which includes sorting content by last updated, most recent, title, publish date, start date, or relevance.
   • Enable Filter by Content Type?: To allow learners to filter by content type, enable this toggle. When enabled, the catalog search bar will automatically include a "filter by" option where learners can select a content type and only view applicable results.
   • Display Content Start Date?: If you have content that has more than one session and would like to display start dates on the course detail page, enable this toggle.

   • Only display accessible content?: In the catalog, hide content that a learner does not have access to by enabling this toggle.

     Note

     It is recommended to only use this setting when selling content directly to learners.

     It is not recommended to use this setting on any panorama pages as panorama already has logic for this behavior that may conflict if enabled.

   • Display Content Authors: Enable if you want to display the content's author in the catalog. Note that this will not display unless an author has been added to the content item at Courses > All Courses > Content Title > Design > Edit Catalog Settings > Advanced Settings > Display Authors.
   • Remove past events from the calendar: To remove a session from the calendar view once the last meeting has ended, enable this toggle.
   • Display description on calendar: To show the content description and image on the calendar view, enable this toggle.
3. Click Show Advanced within the Catalog section to view more options.
   • Skip the course detail page when the learner has access?: Sets the default for your entire site. When enabled, learners who already have access to content bypass the course detail page. You can override this default for individual content types. See Controlling Detail Page Navigation by Content Type.
   • Catalog Visibility Emails: This field serves to notify recipients when new content is published in the catalog. You can add more than one recipient to this list by adding a comma between email addresses.
   • Primary Subscription: Select a subscription so its subscription detail page shows instead of any course detail page.

The Skip the course detail page when the learner has access? toggle in your catalog settings sets the default for your entire site. You can override that default for specific content types. For example, you can send learners straight into quick content like videos while keeping the detail page for longer courses, where the overview, prerequisites, or schedule matter.

This setting only applies to learners who already have access to the content. Learners who need to purchase or register always see the detail page.

Setting detail page behavior for a content type

1. From your homepage, select Courses > Settings.
2. Select Content Type tile > Set Up.
3. Select your content type, then click Edit.
4. Click the Skip detail page dropdown and choose one of the following:
   • Inherit: Follows the Skip the course detail page when the learner has access? toggle in Organization & Display.
   • Always Skip: Learners with access go directly into the content for this content type only.
   • Never Skip: Learners always see the course detail page for this content type only.
5. Click Save.

How the platform decides which page to show

When more than one setting applies, the platform checks them in this order. The first one that applies wins.

1. External Detail Link: If a content item has an External Detail Link set, learners are sent to that URL.
2. Content type setting: If the item's content type is set to Always Skip or Never Skip, that choice applies.
3. Site-wide toggle: If the content type is set to Inherit, the toggle in Organization & Display applies.

A ribbon is a colored label that displays on a piece of content's catalog image. You can create a number of ribbons to label your content, as well as boost content to the top of your catalog by using a boost ribbon.

Creating a Ribbon

1. On the Organization & Display page, go to the Ribbons section.
2. Click Add Ribbon.
3. Boost a ribbon to the top of the catalog by going to the section, clicking Boost Ribbon, and selecting a ribbon from the droplist of existing ribbons.

Adding a ribbon to a content item

1. From your homepage, click Courses, then All Courses.
2. Select the content to add a ribbon to and then navigate to the Design step.
3. Click Edit Catalog Settings and you will land on the Catalog tab. Locate the Ribbon dropdown.
4. Select the appropriate ribbon.
5. Click Save.
6. Learners see ribbons displayed on the top right of a catalog image.

Learners can choose the catalog display type, based on how you configure your catalog settings:

List View

Grid View

Calendar View

Sort By View

Filter by Content Type View

Display Content Start Date View

Display Content Author View

Display Descriptions on Calendar View