Binary Studio Academy 2013 Project: Corporate Social Network

Project participants

Egor (coach) Ilya

Kirill Misha

Sofia Viktor

About project Our project is a corporate social network

• Confidentiality of information

• Only necessary functions

• Full independence

What are the key features of the project?

• Work simplification and fun

Technologies used

Let's start

What is the main difference of this social network?

This social network is not for everyone

Wow, where is the registration button?

How do I register?

There is only one way – via the invitation from administration

A slight deviation from the registration process

• All project forms contain data validation on both the client and the server

• Most of the errors that come from the server, will be loaded on the page with AJAX

Congratulations, now you are in the social network

So, what can we do?

• Communicate with members of the social network

• Use the library consisting of paper and e-books

• Use the calendar and always be aware of birthdays and important events

• Keep track on what new your colleagues have

• Receive notifications on events, messages, etc.

List of all users sorted by their last activity

User profile page. Each member can send email or message in private conversation.

Conversations

• Where the unread messages marked with blue color.

• Sorted by messages time. • In the left side are title of

conversation and it's members.

• In the right - last message in this conversation.

Messages of conversation

Create new conversations

• This form, as other forms, opens in a modal window

• The very useful autocomplete for the adding new members

• Unnecessary queries to database from autocomplete not happening

The same technology is used to add users into the already existing conversations

And for add users into the events

Userbox

Userbox is shown in the right top corner.

• Contains link with the number of unread notifications

• Displays username and avatar.

• Link for editing profile and link for logout

Notifications

The last 5 notifications about messages and events are displayed after click on the notification icon. User can click on the each notification for reading messages or viewing event page. Made using Javascript library Toastr.

Also all notifications are available in the static page.

They are sorted by date and contain the short description.

• You can edit an event by clicking on the cell of the existing event

• User can see the only events, which the involved with him;

• It is possible to drag and drop events for a quick change of date

• You can create an event by clicking on the cell of the day

Calendar

A monthly calendar format:

Weekly calendar format

Drag and drop events for a quick change of date

Resize events to change the duration of event

Calendar's agenda page

List of the upcoming events with filter by type of the event. Possible: • adding new event; • editing event; • deleting events; • view information about the

event such as date start (end), description, etc.

Page of the event:

• We can see the full event information;

• Users can leave their comments for the events;

• Possible editing and deleting event.

Add/Edit event

Each event has its own color.

The interval between the two dates sets the start and duration of the event.

List of members. If you are a creator of this event, you can remove any user.

Title and description

List of types. All types of the events have their default color

Calendar settings

Ability to import the events from google calendar into our own calendar.

To do this:

2. copy the link into the field for import

1. take a reference to an XML file with the events from Google Calendar.

3. push the button

Library

Yellow row - someone has already booked this book If a file with the book

was not uploaded then button is crossed out

Gray row – e-book

Green row - the book is available and you can take it

Red row – the book is already taken

Filters and sorting

The administrative side

Just having the necessary privileges, you can access the admin panel

From this panel you can: • manage user accounts; • manage library books; • invite new members.

User list

Red row – this user was blocked

Typical user

From this list admin can block / unblock, edit and delete any of member Admin can edit any field, user, even password.

• view and manage queues users.

Book list

The same colors as the list of books for clients. But we can see more control buttons:

• add new book;

• edit existing book;

• delete existing book;

• return the book;

We can change the type of the book. And load file on the cloud storage by AJAX

Queue on book

List of users who want this book Click on user. Then you can choose return date for book. Then you can save your actions.

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