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Customizing a Municipal Web Site with eDirectory™ and GroupWise® WebAccess
Customizing a Municipal Web Site with eDirectory™ and GroupWise® WebAccess
Jim MichaelI.S. Manager, City of ChesterfieldNovell Support Connect [email protected]
Brian AndersonWebmasterCity of [email protected]
Session Objectives
• Demonstrate how the City of Chesterfield, Missouri has leveraged Novell technologies to add dynamic content to its web site
• Make network administrators and webmasters aware of the technology they may already own, but don’t realize can be used to enhance their web sites
• Show that dynamic content is not all “rocket science”
Web Site Problems
• Static content Web site served only HTML pages
• High maintenance Webmaster required to constantly tend to
content• Poor ROI
Other web applications sidelined• Redundant data
Information on the web has already been created elsewhere
• Error prone Multiple places for mistakes to be introduced
Web Site Goals
• Dynamic content Always current
• Scalable Can grow with the city
• Low maintenance Employees manage their own content Separate design from business logic
Web Site Goals (cont.)
• High ROI Employ technology already owned by the city
• Seamless Technology must work transparently
Target Areas
• Web calendar
• Document management/publishing
• Search engine
• Employee directory
Web Calendar—Old
• HTML Static
How It Worked Then
Webmaster FTPs information
to server
Webmaster edits the HTML
calendar
Secretary e-mails
webmaster
Secretary enters info into
GroupWise®
New meetingis scheduled
Web Calendar—Recent
• AUOffice Calendar Limited
customization Requires
Microsoft Web Server
Requires Windows box with GroupWise®
client
Web Calendar—Current
• GroupWise WebAccess
Dynamic Customizable Fast
• Demo
How It Works Now
New meetingis scheduled
Info is immediatelyaccessible on web site
via WebAccess
Secretary e-mails
webmaster
Web Calendar—Details
• Current calendar—GroupWise WebAccess Underlying technology
• Java servlets/JSP
• NetWare® 6
• Tomcat 3.3• Template engine
Configuration Modifying the templates Security
Document Management—Old
• HTML Static
How It Worked Then
Secretary creates Word
document
Use Word-HTML conversion?
Secretary e-mails document to webmaster
Spend an hourcleaning up
proprietary tags
Webmaster FTPsdocument toweb server
YES
NO
Spend an hourcoding document
into HTML
Five minutes later,secretary makes
edits to thedocument
Document Management—Current
• GroupWise WebPublisher
DynamicCustomizableFastLow maintenance
• Demo
How It Works Now
Secretary creates Word
document
Saves documentto GroupWise
Automatically indexed
and available on web site
Five minutes later,secretary edits
document
Document Management—Details
• Current document management—GroupWise WebPublisher
Configuration Modifying the templates
Search Engine—Old
• Perl script Slow Limited
configuration Doesn’t index
non-HTML documents (i.e., PDF)
Can’t crawl dynamic URLs
Search Engine—Current
• NetWare Web Search Server®
Fast Indexes PDFs Indexes
Dynamic URLs Really fast
• Demo
Search Engine—Details
• Current search engine—NetWare Web Search
Configuration Modifying the templates
Directory—Old
• HTML Static
How It Worked Then
New employee
hired
Administratorupdates
eDirectory
Administratore-mails changesto webmaster
Webmaster updates HTML, FTPs new code
to server
Employee is fired,gets married,
changes phone,moves, etc.
Directory—Recent
• JDBC Painfully slow
• Demo
Directory—Current
• Novell eCommerce Beans
DynamicCustomizableLudicrous speed
• Demo
How It Works Now
Everything on web siteis administered
through eDirectory
Directory—Details
• Current directory—Novell eCommerce Beans Brief overview of Beans Configuration Accessing eDirectory information via web pages
Resources
• developer.novell.com WebAccess customization documentation eCommerce Beans Sophisticated demos using eCommerce Beans All available in the Novell Developers Kit (NDK) free
• jakarta.apache.org Tomcat servlet engine
• www.chesterfield.mo.us• AU Office Calendar
