I have been given the task of creating an intranet for our firm. I want to use Umbraco as it is the friendly cms!
The intranet will have a news section, so that's easy enough.
There will be an IT helpdesk, I'm going to use a form which will hopefully mail us when an enquiry comes in. So far I can't get the emails out, probably an SMTP problem, in testing.
We need a phonebook too, that I'm not sure about, maybe Lucene, anybody any ideas?
An asset register for all of our branch's equipment, not sure what was to go about this yet either.
Our firm sells building products to both the trade and DIY so we have handheld scanners for scanning barcodes. There might be a request for the scanners to connect through the intranet to a database for stock count. Is this possible?
Sorry there's so many questions, but I'm just planning at the moment, and really want to use Umbraco.
I will try to help you gives you some ideas how you could solve the tasks that you want in the intranet.
For the troubles that you have getting the emails, you could try to use the smtp4dev tool http://smtp4dev.codeplex.com/. With this tool it makes it easier to test if the email are being sending on localhost.
For the phone book I was thinking if you could use the built-in member section, and then have each person as a member and then just add some custom field to the member type. Such as phone number.
Thanks for the links - you are a fund of information as always. The member section jumped into my head last night but I forgot about it again!
I was using the smtp4dev toolkit yesterday and it picked up the mails. When I turned off the toolkit the mails vanished! I'm sure I missed something....
Planning an Intranet
Hi All
I have been given the task of creating an intranet for our firm. I want to use Umbraco as it is the friendly cms!
The intranet will have a news section, so that's easy enough.
There will be an IT helpdesk, I'm going to use a form which will hopefully mail us when an enquiry comes in. So far I can't get the emails out, probably an SMTP problem, in testing.
We need a phonebook too, that I'm not sure about, maybe Lucene, anybody any ideas?
An asset register for all of our branch's equipment, not sure what was to go about this yet either.
Our firm sells building products to both the trade and DIY so we have handheld scanners for scanning barcodes. There might be a request for the scanners to connect through the intranet to a database for stock count. Is this possible?
Sorry there's so many questions, but I'm just planning at the moment, and really want to use Umbraco.
Thanks a lot and Happy Friday! Tony
Hi Tony,
I will try to help you gives you some ideas how you could solve the tasks that you want in the intranet.
For the troubles that you have getting the emails, you could try to use the smtp4dev tool http://smtp4dev.codeplex.com/. With this tool it makes it easier to test if the email are being sending on localhost.
For the phone book I was thinking if you could use the built-in member section, and then have each person as a member and then just add some custom field to the member type. Such as phone number.
You could see this this blogpost from the Umbraco advent calendar from 2014. http://24days.in/umbraco/2014/dealing-with-members/ Try also to see this documentation about the member services https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/reference/management-v6/Services/MemberService and https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/reference/management-v6/services/MemberTypeService and https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/reference/management-v6/services/MemberGroupService
You can make a custom table on the database and where is a video on how to work with a custom table a get data from this. http://www.aptitude.co.uk/videos/using-custom-tables-data-in-umbraco/
Hope this can help you.
/Dennis
Hi Dennis
Thanks for the links - you are a fund of information as always. The member section jumped into my head last night but I forgot about it again!
I was using the smtp4dev toolkit yesterday and it picked up the mails. When I turned off the toolkit the mails vanished! I'm sure I missed something....
Thanks a lot. :) Tony
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