low tco, high impact: innovative government services at manatee county
DESCRIPTION
This presentation will discuss the Magnolia implementation for Manatee County Government. Manatee County Government implemented both an intranet and Internet site using Magnolia EE with a small internal IT Team and a core group of 38 content editors. Manatee County leveraged the flexibility of the Magnolia STK to get an intranet site up and running quickly (4 Months). The intranet site provided content for the County's 1600 employees and served as a learning tool for developers, administrators and content editors while the Internet Site was under development. Manatee County's new website now contains over 1,500 pages edited by 150 individuals from 17 County Departments. The site has multiple integration points with existing County information. Touch points include ESRI Mapping data, Oracle Enterprise data and Lotus Domino databases. The discussion will focus on the Integration opportunities of County information into the STK.TRANSCRIPT
Innovative Government Services at Manatee County, FloridaLow TCO High Impact:
Matthew ArriagaSoftware DesignerManatee County, FloridaMagnolia Conference 2010
About Manatee County
● 15 Federated Departments– Public Safety– Utilities– Parks & Recreation
● Design Goal: Department Controlled Content● Centralized Information Technology Department
– Software Development– Technology Training– GIS
– Building– Financial Management– Public Works
– Help Desk– Fiber Network
Our Architecture
● Magnolia Enterprise Edition 4.3.5– LDAP Module– Forms– Standard Templating Kit
● Single authoring instance● Two-site, jackrabbit cluster for published instance● Oracle Persistence Manager● Red Hat VM-ware
– Groovy– WebDAV
Low TCO from reduced Complexity
● Deployed using existing infrastructure– Servers– Databases
● Integrated with existing platforms– Oracle– Domino
● Excellent adoption throughout the County– In house training course– Open lab workshops
Security and workflow
● LDAP with Domino Address Book● 8 Site wide, landing page editors● 1-4 publishers per department● 140 departmental editors● Simplified intranet publishing
Our Sites
● Manatee County iNet (intranet)– ROI for stakeholders– Learning tool– Meet or exceed existing capabilities– Proposal to production in 4 months
● MyManatee.org (Internet)– Additional six months of work
● 4,000+ documents in the dms● 3,000+ content pages
Magnolia Customizations
● Skinnable theme● Data integration● STK modifications● Form module modifications● Additional Javascript libraries
Our Sites
Skinnable Theme
● Rapid prototyping of designs● Processed CSS Capabilities● Freemarker in CSS
– Assign color palette– Assign root folder of images
Skinnable Theme
Login & Contacts
● LDAP module with Domino Address Book● Created our own External User● Created an Import Handler
– Oracle RDBMS HR information– Domino address book
● IBM Sametime presence awareness
Login & Contacts
Documents & Links
● Multiple column link lists● Link List from a DMS Folder● Expanded document metadata● Link table from a DMS Folder
– Display document metadata– Sort into columns by metadata
Documents & Links
Documents & Links
Forms Module
● Javascript generates freemarker email template● Jquery-UI generates tabs from fieldsets● Fields suppressed by field values● Created Oracle Form Processor
– Creates & adds tables– Attachments stored as blobs– Scans attachments using Clam AV
Forms Module
Flexigrid
● Dialog points it to any Oracle Table● Created Flexi-servlet
– added to the filter chain● Embedded data-grid
– Sorts– Exports– Searches– Editable
Flexigrid
Flexigrid
Mapping
● Embedded dynamic maps● ArcGIS Server ● Uses Dojo library● Embedded map in Dialog● Map size, extent and layers
Mapping
Mapping
It all works together...
● Framework replaces ad-hoc development● Forms collect the data● Standard templating kit adornments● Flexigrid displays submitted form data● Flexigrid interacts with the map
What's next
● Public User Registration● Privileged access● E-Commerce● Soap Web Services● Streaming Video
Questions
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