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title: "What does it do?"
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# What does it do? {#introduction}

This extension provides record types for academic person profiles using the TYPO3
backend (list module/page layout module) to manage the profiles requiring backend
user account(s).

Further, plugins are provided to display the persons in the frontend as a list
view and detail view for each person.

The following profile data is available to users after installation:

-   -   **Master data:**

        -   Salutation / Gender
        -   title
        -   First name
        -   Last name
        -   Middle name
        -   Website + website link
        -   Image
        -   URL
-   -   **Contracts:**

        -   Each person can receive any amount of contract data in order to be displayed
            in individual roles, functions or organizational units.
        -   Position
        -   Organizational unit / department - link to own data type
        -   Contract start / end
        -   Location - e.g. for campus Link to own data type
        -   Room information
        -   Office hours
-   Address data
-   Email addresses
-   Telephone addresses
-   Linked pages (in combination with the Contact-For-Pages extension)
-   Employment category based on system categories
-   -   **Profile text data:**

        -   All textual content can be freely designed using the standard text editor.
        -   Learning areas/fields of activity
        -   Research areas
        -   Supervised dissertations
        -   Supervised doctoral theses
        -   Miscellaneous information
-   -   **Profile timeline entries**

        -   All timeline entries allow the chronological presentation of content, usually
            with a year or a start and/or end year, a title, a short description
            and a link
        -   Research projects
        -   Academic career
        -   Memberships/committee activities
        -   Networks and cooperation's
        -   Publications
        -   Lectures
        -   Press/Media Publications