Overview of Vita Display Styles
When setting up and configuring vitas, administrators can select from four display options. The Display options are set from the Display dropdown that appears on the Vita Setup page, and elsewhere when the user is presented with options for how to format the display of the vita. There are four types of display styles. These must be configured for each section and cannot be applied at the template-level. This article outlines the differences between the four display options available in vita outputs: Traditional, Traditional-Date, Tabular, and Listing. Examples of each style are provided below.
Vita Output Options
| Listing |
Listing displays every field of a given section in a list, with each field separated by a line break. The field name will be displayed first in bold, followed by a colon, then the field data. There is no way to limit which fields appear.
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| Traditional |
Traditional was the original vita style built for Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR) to resemble a standard citation format. It is also the default format when a new institutional vita is built. Unlike Listing, only certain fields are displayed. However, like Listing, the fields displayed are not configurable.
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| Traditional-Date |
The same standard citation format as Traditional, but is preceded by the calculated date range for the activity record.
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| Tabular |
Allows the user to format all sections of a vita in tabular display. It is designed for things like courses taught, and other items that are made up of very structured data that looks best in a tabular format. This is the only display style which allows for field configurability, which can be done by selecting “Edit Table Columns” after selecting the Tabular display style.
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