UHM Sustainability
UHM
Sustainability website brings together information and
research on what is being done about sustainability in Hawaii. It is
governed by University of Hawaii and works according to the following
slogan: 'Doing more with less for a cleaner, greener, healthier campus'.
Project Outline
- Quintagroup was faced with the task to configure Membership
on site. All members' information are collected in one Large
Plone Folder Members
- a container for portal members' home directories.
Member profiles were developed on the basis of Membrane and b-org Plone products, with some new features implemented. Apart from b-org Member's page fields (such as personal information, contact details, biography, portrait etc) it has two more fields added - designation and interests.
- Members can also subscribe to newsletter while registration
process as well. Member profile has a special line to be selected - Receive newsletter.
Newsletter was implemented on UHM Sustainability site with PloneGazette Plone product. Users can subscribe to receive newsletter not only at registration stage but any time, following the newsletter link.
- UHM Sustainability Membership had some security
requirements:
- Only persons with emails in hawaii.edu domain are allowed to join the site. Other domains are not supported for simple registration.
- Persons can also be invited by other registered members of
UHM Sustainability so that to be registered. For that, a
registered user should follow invite
a friend link on his personal bar in the top right corner and
fill in the Member Details
page. After member details are saved a new member can login
to the site with the username and password, provided on Member details
page.
Quintagroup delivered
- Plone skin development
- Membership security customization
- Newsletter implementation