This presentation was given at Amplify Miami 2014 by Abigail Barlow, IT Analyst and Manager at SRA International, and Sebastian Napoli, Co-Founder and Director of Technology Solutions at NRG Edge. The Impact Detailed Planning and Execution May Have on Your CMS Project This session will look at what it means to implement Magnolia CMS as an intranet portal solution from product evaluation to deployment, and all that lies in between. Starting with our unique business and system use cases, learn why we picked Magnolia, how we designed our multi-site solution for scale and flexibility while still taking advantage of supported out of the box functionality. We will show how we deconstructed the STK to develop smart requirements, and how that impacted our time to develop, test, and deploy.

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Measure Twice, Cut Once
The Impact Detailed Planning and Execution May Have on Your CMS
Project
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SRA and NRG Edge Date: 2.19.2014

2. § Abigail Barlow – SRA International
§ Senior Analyst
§ SRA Magnolia project lead
§ Gail_Barlow@sra.com
§ Lucero Carmona – NRG Edge
§ Web Developer
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Introductions
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3. § Asking a Question…
§ Project overview and planning strategies
§ Creating an Answer…
§ Development strategies: STK custom extensions, themes,
CSS
§ Custom development highlights
§ Best practices: Positioning the app for upgrade to 5.0
§ Site Demo
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Agenda
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4. § Make a plan!
§ Don’t reinvent the wheel
§ Speak “Magnolia” in your requirements and specs
§ Prioritize elements from requirements
§ Extend as much as possible
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Things to Take Away
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Project Overview and Planning

6. § Who are we?
§ Cyber Security – TSA SOC
§ What did we need?
§ Presentation layer
§ Multiple portals for multiple customers managed from one
platform
§ Why Magnolia?
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Use Case
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7. § Goal: Replace and improve current portal solution
§ Business Requirements
§ Retrofit existing requirements and design enhancements
§ Caveat: No “customization”
§ Caveat: Accommodate rapid change (both content and
context)
§ Development: partnership with NRG
§ Deployment: this project is ongoing as we roll out in multiple
releases
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Project Definition
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8. § Site Design
§ Information
Architecture (IA)
§ Wireframes
§ User Experience
(UX)
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Site Planning and Site Design
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9. § Page Layout
§ Main Template
§ Page Design
§ Areas
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Page Layout and Page Design
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PSDs and Prototypes
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§ Breaking down the STK
§ Create an STK Catalog
§ Reverse Engineer
§ Reconstructing the STK
§ Create Photoshop
documents (PSD’s) and
prototypes
§ Isolate any custom
functionality

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Requirements Development and Specs
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§ PSD to Requirements
§ Speak “Magnolia”
§ Specs to development -
NRG

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Development

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Requirements
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§ Using existing STK CSS to
accommodate and focus on:
§ Browser Requirements
§ Multisite
§ Responsive Design

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Division of Stylesheets
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§ Based on pop theme
§ Split main CSS into two concepts:
§ Unique color/images
§ Non-changing elements
§ Nine CSS Files

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Themes
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§ Creation of four themes
§ One default theme
§ Three subsite themes
§ Extends default
theme
§ Declares unique
styles

16. Templates
§ Total of 13 templates
§ Pages and components extended existing elements
§ Encouraged quick development
§ Good base for future upgrades
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Public Login Page
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§ Customized login component from stkPublicUserRegistration
§ Extended stkPURLoginForm component definition
§ Disable Page Navigation
§ Limit component availability to customized login form component
§ Extended RedirectClientCallback to direct user to correct login or
forbidden page

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Forbidden Page
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§ Extension of stkPublicUserRegistration
§ Disabled Page Navigation
§ Limit component availability to Text and Image

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Document Search
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§ Extension of the SearchResultsModel
§ Allow for return search form entries
§ Criteria
§ Published on Date
§ Range of Dates
§ File Name
§ Keyword or Phrase
§ Specific Folder in DMS

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Structure of Website Tree
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§ Root Nodes for each site
§ Content
§ Login
§ Forbidden Page
§ Security Purposes
§ Structure reflected in site definitions

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Structure of Documents
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§ One folder for each
multisite
§ Security Purposes
§ Subfolder split into
graphics and a
deliverable library of
searchable reports

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User Permissions
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§ Limiting access to particular site/dms
§ Creation of roles
§ Setting up of users
§ Process of Public Login
§ Redirects from Forbidden pages

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Best Practices
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§ Positioning for upgrading to Magnolia 5
§ Extension of base STK
§ Customized small amounts of templates
§ Heavily relied on themes for each subsite

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Site Demo

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Questions?