1. www.novell.com Customizing a Municipal Web Site with eDirectory™ and GroupWise ® WebAccess Jim Michael I.S. Manager, City of Chesterfield Novell Support Connect Sysop jmichael@chesterfield.mo.us Brian Anderson Webmaster City of Chesterfield banderson@chesterfield.mo.us

2. 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”

3. 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

4. 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

5. Web Site Goals (cont.) High ROI  Employ technology already owned by the city Seamless  Technology must work transparently

6. Target Areas Web calendar Document management/publishing Search engine Employee directory

7. Web Calendar—Old HTML  Static

8. How It Worked Then Webmaster FTPs information to server Webmaster edits the HTML calendar Secretary e-mails webmaster Secretary enters info into GroupWise ® New meeting is scheduled

9. Web Calendar—Recent AUOffice Calendar  Limited customization  Requires Microsoft Web Server  Requires Windows box with GroupWise ® client

10. Web Calendar—Current GroupWise WebAccess  Dynamic  Customizable  Fast Demo

11. How It Works Now New meeting is scheduled Info is immediately accessible on web site via WebAccess Secretary e-mails webmaster

12. Web Calendar—Details Current calendar—GroupWise WebAccess  Underlying technology Java servlets/JSP NetWare ® 6 Tomcat 3.3 Template engine  Configuration  Modifying the templates  Security

13. Document Management—Old HTML  Static

14. How It Worked Then Secretary creates Word document Use Word-HTML conversion? Secretary e-mails document to webmaster Spend an hour cleaning up proprietary tags Webmaster FTPs document to web server YES NO Spend an hour coding document into HTML Five minutes later, secretary makes edits to the document

15. Document Management—Current GroupWise WebPublisher  Dynamic  Customizable  Fast  Low maintenance Demo

16. How It Works Now Secretary creates Word document Saves document to GroupWise Automatically indexed and available on web site Five minutes later, secretary edits document

17. Document Management—Details Current document management—GroupWise WebPublisher  Configuration  Modifying the templates

18. Search Engine—Old Perl script  Slow  Limited configuration  Doesn’t index non-HTML documents (i.e., PDF)  Can’t crawl dynamic URLs

19. Search Engine—Current NetWare Web Search Server ®  Fast  Indexes PDFs  Indexes Dynamic URLs  Really fast Demo

20. Search Engine—Details Current search engine—NetWare Web Search  Configuration  Modifying the templates

21. Directory—Old HTML  Static

22. How It Worked Then New employee hired Administrator updates eDirectory Administrator e-mails changes to webmaster Webmaster updates HTML, FTPs new code to server Employee is fired, gets married, changes phone, moves, etc.

23. Directory—Recent JDBC  Painfully slow Demo

24. Directory—Current Novell eCommerce Beans  Dynamic  Customizable  Ludicrous speed Demo

25. How It Works Now Everything on web site is administered through eDirectory

26. Directory—Details Current directory—Novell eCommerce Beans  Brief overview of Beans  Configuration  Accessing eDirectory information via web pages

27. 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  anderbr@auburn.edu