Portal Development Best Practices

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Development Process Flow

Attune Infocom follows best practices for development of open source portal with the team of industry experts and deliver the solution within committed time line.

9 Steps - Why do you choose Attune Infocom as a development partner?

Inception and Scoping

The project is conceptualized with Technical Architect, the functionality is discussed with Domain Experts and the list of requirement is laid out.

Work Order

Once the scope, technical feasibility, development platform, terms and prices are negotiated and finalized, we will send you our work order and Pro-Forma Invoice to get started.

Documentation & Planning

We create a Business Requirement Specification Document, System Requirement Specification, wireframes and a project plan with detailed milestones and deliverables.

Design & Prototyping

Design mockups are created as per the approved wireframes at this stage and sent to you for your approval.

Programming & Development

The development work begins with making the project in to reality as per the planning.

Client Review & Revision

Regular demos are given as per project plan and milestones achivables and your valuable feedback is taken. Changes, if any, are made as per the scope.

Testing

Every module is tested regorously by experienced tester considering standard of code and cross browser compatibility to ensure quality, usability, relaiablity and scalibility.

Delivery & Acceptance

The fine points are worked on. The project is ready for deployment at this stage.

Ongoing Support

The project goes in to maintenance contract & support will be availed for upgrade and make it up to date all the time.

Contact me today to discuss your requirement and project.

Mustufa Rahi

Cell : +91 93767 05152

Mail : mustufa.rahi@gmail.com

Joomla – JomSocial Integration with extensive search functionality

How Attune Infocom delights client with vast Joomla Development & Customization Experience

Attune Infocom has started its CMS development with popular PHP framework Joomla and now it is equiped with a team of experts on Joomla with experience for design and development of hundreds of projects in Joomla CMS. Joomla is used all over the world to design and develop a simple and personal home pages to complex corporate web applications. It is build on modular structure and you have the options to upgrade as per your needs. Here I am going to share utilities of Joomla for one of our best customization and developed project integrating JomSocial with Joomla and utilizing Google Map integration as a heart of the project – www.pickaride.com

This project has utilized Joomla features like user management, image library, jomsocial plugin integration, a rich content management and powerful mysql database management for quick result on search query.

Friendly User Interface for www.pickaride.com

Pickaride has a beautiful concept for searching the nearest transportation medium, whether it be a self driver or individual driver or offering service by transportation companies. Team Attune has developed a complete search functionality considering the PINCODE of the respective search person and the saved profile of driver's location pincode. Attune Infocom has written and optimized the code of search to make it perfect to fetch the results in fastest speed. The search results are showing the whole address on google map and people can even drag and locate it to their exact location. The search can start with single parameter of PINCODE or can be extended with many parameters like, event, distance and transportation type. It also contains advance search option like, languages preferences, vehicle type, gender, amenities provided.

On other side, this whole system has loaded with JomSocial to add the social networking features to know the individual preferences. Pickaride has functionality of enabling mobile text messages to inform about the nearest ride search and call back alerts. This system has extended its coverage by offering state wise ride coverage search option.

The web application is live and you can start searching your ride...

Feel free to contact me for customization and development of your Joomla CMS web :

Mustufa Rahi

Business Development Manager

E-mail : mustufa.rahi@gmail.com

Cell : +91-93767 05152

Liferay Portal Application Development for Intranet

Liferay Portal Migration for Stannah

Executive Summary

The Stannah is a giants corporation with multiple business verticals having thousands of users connecting through Intranet portal. Stannah was serving its intranet portal using Websphere portal technology since many years now. Attune Infocom came in to contact with Stannah offering a feature rich open source Portal framework and introduce Liferay as a perfect match to their requirement. Team Attune has taken an initiative to look at existing portal build on Websphere and developed similar functionality in to Liferay Portal customization and development efforts.

About Stannah

The Stannah Group is a long standing British, family-owned company with members of the Stannah family still very much hands on in running the business. Over the years we have developed a reputation for honesty, integrity and commitment to the quality customers have come to expect across all our products.

First Look - Stannah Intranet Portal

Technologies used in project

Portal : Liferay Community Edition 6.0.6 | SSO : Spenego | Database : MySQL 5
Domain : Active Directory | Development Tool : Eclipse | Web Server : Tomcat

Stannah - Intranet Portal achieved following advantages

Problem Statement 1 : News Portlet, Sports and Social
- The last 4 news items displayed when click on a link to get the details about the news item.
- Hovering over the image to enlarge it, users are allowed to add comments to the news item and a count of the number of comments will appear on the summary view on the homepage.
- Click event on the back to news list on the top right it will take to a list of all the news items added.
- To get to the above screen from using the menu on the home page or by clicking on the "All News" link.

Problem Statement 2 - Careers
- Careers are added and a summary view is available the same as the news, however users are not allowed to add comments against the career requirements.

Problem Statement 3 – Blogs
- When clicking blogs, it display on normal page but required to display separate page with maximized stage.

Problem Statement 4 - Restaurant Menu
- When clicking on Restaurant link from the Home menu the below page will appear, only the canteen Manager (Group) will be allowed to add / delete items to the menu.
- The links on the right are links to either word or PDF documents.

Problem Statement 5 - Discounts and Offers
- This provides a list of discounts to other companies products.

Implementation Success using Liferay
- The user can create the news, sports, social, restaurant, blog, career, discount and offer page content from the liferay web content management of type news.
- Create template for filling the news content in the web content management.
- Use asset publisher portlet to populate news type web content and career type web content, the portlet will be modified to imitate current news functionality and UI.
- Using this user add comment for specified news
- Customize Liferay message board for blog functionality
- Use of Asset publisher portlet to display the recently message from message board portlet in Blog
- Create a portlet called Restaurant portlet. Which will have add / delete button for create and delete item. Clicking add will take the Canteen manager liferay web content creation.