How would you build an employee list private site?
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Hi There,
Just hoping for your thoughts on the most efficient way to make a micro site with restricted access to list 400 or so employees in a searchable list, each with Name, Title, Department and image.
I imagined setting up custom attributes and adding a page per user and making a custom page list template search results template that didnt actually link through to the user page but provided lists.
Problems
- BULK ADDING PAGES WITH METADATA AND IMAGES
how to easily add 400+ users from a csv file or similar without manually inputting each page. nest solution I have is the add multiple pages, but I would still need to input all images. The Hissy csv to cif format tool is broken in c5.7.4
RESTRICT ACCESS BUT MAKE LOGGING IN EASY
- how to restrict access only to empoyees. 1 login password per user? That means 400 user profiles. Or I create one generic user password. I could do a cPanel password but it is ugly. I need a clean elegant access solution to restrict access but make the user experience super slick without having to sign up.
MAKE SEARCHES FILTERABLE
- If I want to add my employees each to categories, e.g. department, I am concerned if I go the route of filing them under parent pages because the page lists at a super parent level do not sort tidily (a problem I am trying to fix elsewhere). Is tags now the best / easiest way to create these custom fields and make pages both searchable by and filtering a page list by it. I normally user attributes, but I haven't ever used the Tags feature. Would it be appropriate here?
I just don't want to start a build having not used the existing features in the most appropriate way.
Ultimately I really want to build in c5.7 as I gave up Joomla long ago but I have have never run it for data of this scale, only ever really smaller "normal" site and a few of the tools I was hoping I might find dont exist in 5.7
Then again maybe I should go back to 5.6 for this build? Just thinking that may be much better equipped with addons.
Any advice on what you would do would be much appreciated.
Just hoping for your thoughts on the most efficient way to make a micro site with restricted access to list 400 or so employees in a searchable list, each with Name, Title, Department and image.
I imagined setting up custom attributes and adding a page per user and making a custom page list template search results template that didnt actually link through to the user page but provided lists.
Problems
- BULK ADDING PAGES WITH METADATA AND IMAGES
how to easily add 400+ users from a csv file or similar without manually inputting each page. nest solution I have is the add multiple pages, but I would still need to input all images. The Hissy csv to cif format tool is broken in c5.7.4
RESTRICT ACCESS BUT MAKE LOGGING IN EASY
- how to restrict access only to empoyees. 1 login password per user? That means 400 user profiles. Or I create one generic user password. I could do a cPanel password but it is ugly. I need a clean elegant access solution to restrict access but make the user experience super slick without having to sign up.
MAKE SEARCHES FILTERABLE
- If I want to add my employees each to categories, e.g. department, I am concerned if I go the route of filing them under parent pages because the page lists at a super parent level do not sort tidily (a problem I am trying to fix elsewhere). Is tags now the best / easiest way to create these custom fields and make pages both searchable by and filtering a page list by it. I normally user attributes, but I haven't ever used the Tags feature. Would it be appropriate here?
I just don't want to start a build having not used the existing features in the most appropriate way.
Ultimately I really want to build in c5.7 as I gave up Joomla long ago but I have have never run it for data of this scale, only ever really smaller "normal" site and a few of the tools I was hoping I might find dont exist in 5.7
Then again maybe I should go back to 5.6 for this build? Just thinking that may be much better equipped with addons.
Any advice on what you would do would be much appreciated.
