Company Contacts DB On An Intranet Site

net-carver · 2011-11-23 21:10:26

Hello,

finally got to using Textpattern CMS on a little contacts DB site running on an Intranet. I’ll have to post some pictures as there is no public URL for this one. This site is my first Bootstrap project — which I found very useful and plan to use again. It also uses v3 of the Google Maps API to render maps and routes to shops for pick-ups/deliveries. Overall the site is pretty simple, so not much more to say about it.

Above: Login page, courtesy of cbe_frontauth

Above: The main contact directory listing with some test data.

Above: Detail of an Organisation’s page. People & Shops layouts are pretty similar but with some minor tweaks.

Above: Click through from the Edit link leads to a simplified write tab on the admin side.

The following plugins were used in the construction of the site…

bot_admin_tooltips
bot_write_tab_customize
cbe_frontauth (modified to output bootstrap compliant markup)
csb_if_newer_than
rah_change_passwords
rah_section_titles
rah_textile_bar
rvm_css
rvm_privileged
smd_user_manager
smd_write_cats
wet_haystack

I also played with the vCard data format in smd_qr which seems to do a great job and that feature might make it into the site eventually.

els · 2011-11-23 22:04:55

Nice application!

uli · 2011-11-23 22:22:50

Bravo for exchanging the two outer columns on the Write tab. It’s exactly how I feel it should be, data should be entered from big to small, from overall to more specific.

maruchan · 2011-11-23 23:51:48

Very nice, Steve. Thanks for sharing—the screenshots are great. Looks like you came in nicely under the custom field limit, too :-)

I love those user plugins, aren’t they great? On a recent TXP site with lots of logging-in and interaction, I ended up replacing rvm_if_privileged with cbe_frontauth—but you made me curious: Any particular reason why you are keeping rvm_if_privileged around?

And nice to see someone else using Bootstrap. I just finished a quick private directory using Bootstrap myself, though I didn’t use TXP (could have though). But Bootstrap is becoming very recognizable; I’ll definitely be doing lots of edits to the default visuals. For now I have the same black bar across the top as many others do :-)

BTW may I ask what you are using csb_if_newer_than for?

net-carver · 2011-11-24 18:48:10

uli wrote:

Bravo for exchanging the two outer columns on the Write tab. It’s exactly how I feel it should be, data should be entered from big to small, from overall to more specific.

Yes, it definitely feels better this way, at least in this application.

maruchan wrote:

Very nice, Steve. Thanks for sharing—the screenshots are great. Looks like you came in nicely under the custom field limit, too :-)

Yep, saved having to use glz_custom_fields, though I like that a lot too. If I had to split the address into components, I’d probably have used it.

I love those user plugins, aren’t they great? On a recent TXP site with lots of logging-in and interaction, I ended up replacing rvm_if_privileged with cbe_frontauth—but you made me curious: Any particular reason why you are keeping rvm_if_privileged around?

I’m familiar with rvm_privileged but cbe_frontauth is new to me. As I had to do the site quickly (~2 days) I chose to limit my learning curve to just the login/logout features of frontauth. I also had to modify it to output bootstrap compliant output.

And nice to see someone else using Bootstrap. I just finished a quick private directory using Bootstrap myself, though I didn’t use TXP (could have though). But Bootstrap is becoming very recognizable; I’ll definitely be doing lots of edits to the default visuals. For now I have the same black bar across the top as many others do :-)

I like bootstrap — a lot. I’m even tempted to use it in my future plugins. I was tempted to do this with the ORM & Active Record features in Flourish but again chose to use Textpattern CMS because of my familiarity with it. If you’ve not had a play with Flourish yet I highly recommend you try it.

BTW may I ask what you are using csb_if_newer_than for?

As this is a multi-user application, where any of a number of managers can add/edit contacts, I wanted to flag new contacts on the directory listing page so others would know what had been added recently. I used csb_if_newer_than for that.

What I didn’t mention is the quiet magic done by wet_haystack that allows searching across virtually everything in the articles. In this case, that includes the custom fields, title & categories. Makes it super easy to find a contact quickly. Thanks Robert!

net-carver · 2011-11-25 22:03:24

Decided to add QR codes for organisations and shops — but not for people. I don’t like the idea of handing residential address data over to Google for encoding.

Above: QR codes sit nicely at the head of a column.

vk · 2012-01-21 23:53:57

@net-carver : It’s awesome!

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Company Contacts DB On An Intranet Site

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