Primary Agency Field on All Content Types

We are rolling out a new “Primary Agency” field across all SF.gov content types to help improve content ownership and enable future enhancements.

🆕 What’s changing

  • A new Primary Agency field will be added to all content types.

  • This field will identify the agency responsible for maintaining a given page.

  • While not required at launch, the field will become required 60 days after the rollout. We’ll send a follow-up reminder before that change takes effect.

  • For content with a single agency listed in the existing Partner Agency field, DDS will assist in migrating that value to the new Primary Agency field.


🎯 Why this matters

The Primary Agency field sets the foundation for:

  • Filtering pages and documents by agency to help with accessibility remediation

  • Finding your pages in Karl

  • Knowing who to talk to when a page needs an update


đź—‚ Rollout timeline by content type

The field will appear over the next few weeks in 3 phases:

Group 1: (August 26th, early rollout — some fields already exist)

  • Report

  • Step-by-step

  • Campaign (already has a field)

  • Information (already has a field)

  • About (already has field)

  • Profile

Group 2: early September

  • Meetings

  • Events

  • News

Group 3: mid September

  • Data Story

  • Form

  • Location

  • Resource Collection

  • Topics

  • Transactions


âś… What you need to do

  • Start tagging the Primary Agency on new and existing content, where possible.

    • The primary agency is the agency responsible for creating and maintaining the content.

    • If you are unclear about which agency to tag, contact publishinghelp@sfgov.org.

  • Watch for further communications before the field becomes required in 60 days.

If you have any questions, email publishinghelp@sfgov.org.

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