So, however you display the org chart in your portal, you will need to get things right in the back end or suffer the constant “massaging” of your data.
A common approach is to have a field in every employees record with the value of the employees managers name, and/or a field with the managers […]
When I was talking about the org chart I only mentioned Java, Flash, and CSS/DHTML. I had totally forgotten about VML and SVG. Both are client side graphic rendering languages and given an XML stream of hierarchical organization info, could create an excellent org chart.
I have not found any SVG examples with an org chart […]
Another popular portal application I have seen is weather information. Not only current conditions, but forecasts too. Now weather.com offers a JavaScript solution where you can place a predesigned block on your portal with current and forecast conditions, but this has two drawbacks.
First, the script is executed every time the wrapper […]
In a previous post I detailed the Top Ten Intranet Portal applications as defined by the Nielson Norman Group. One of these apps is the corporate organization chart.
We are all familiar with the traditional org chart printed from Powerpoint for some executive cabinet meeting, and we are all familiar with why these are not appropriate […]
As part of the greater strategy of portal implementation, one must always have an eye on portal performance. Poorly designed portlets, or portlets with slow response time will quickly slow down not only a single page, but the entire portal.
With the idea of not to migrate applications to the portals native language, but to […]