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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]
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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”
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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
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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
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Web Site Goals (cont.)
• High ROI Employ technology already owned by the city
• Seamless Technology must work transparently
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Target Areas
• Web calendar
• Document management/publishing
• Search engine
• Employee directory
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Web Calendar—Old
• HTML Static
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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
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Web Calendar—Recent
• AUOffice Calendar Limited
customization Requires
Microsoft Web Server
Requires Windows box with GroupWise®
client
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Web Calendar—Current
• GroupWise WebAccess
Dynamic Customizable Fast
• Demo
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How It Works Now
New meetingis scheduled
Info is immediatelyaccessible on web site
via WebAccess
Secretary e-mails
webmaster
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Web Calendar—Details
• Current calendar—GroupWise WebAccess Underlying technology
• Java servlets/JSP
• NetWare® 6
• Tomcat 3.3• Template engine
Configuration Modifying the templates Security
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Document Management—Old
• HTML Static
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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
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Document Management—Current
• GroupWise WebPublisher
DynamicCustomizableFastLow maintenance
• Demo
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How It Works Now
Secretary creates Word
document
Saves documentto GroupWise
Automatically indexed
and available on web site
Five minutes later,secretary edits
document
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Document Management—Details
• Current document management—GroupWise WebPublisher
Configuration Modifying the templates
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Search Engine—Old
• Perl script Slow Limited
configuration Doesn’t index
non-HTML documents (i.e., PDF)
Can’t crawl dynamic URLs
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Search Engine—Current
• NetWare Web Search Server®
Fast Indexes PDFs Indexes
Dynamic URLs Really fast
• Demo
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Search Engine—Details
• Current search engine—NetWare Web Search
Configuration Modifying the templates
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Directory—Old
• HTML Static
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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.
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Directory—Recent
• JDBC Painfully slow
• Demo
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Directory—Current
• Novell eCommerce Beans
DynamicCustomizableLudicrous speed
• Demo
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How It Works Now
Everything on web siteis administered
through eDirectory
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Directory—Details
• Current directory—Novell eCommerce Beans Brief overview of Beans Configuration Accessing eDirectory information via web pages
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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
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