SHAREPOINT EMPLOYEE PORTAL

#Sharepoint Online # Azure App Service # Azure Webjobs # React JS

Overview

The Customer is an international telecommunications and media company with $10 billion in assets.

The Customer’s employee portal was based on a third-party platform. The portal had unattractive design and not user-friendly interface. Also, it didn’t support language localization. So, after subscribing to the Office 365 suite, the Customer decided to develop a new employee portal in Office 365.

Infigrid team developed an employee portal on SharePoint Online according to all requirements of the Customer. The team implemented custom layout of the portal pages’ with the help of tiles (web parts) and in line with group permissions. The available tiles included Upcoming Events, Career Opportunities, News Carousel, Top Communities, etc. Some of the tiles were designed to be manually controlled by Community Managers (Upcoming Events) or a Global Community Manager (News Carousel).

Our team also created the Actions button on the portal’s home page. This button opens a drop-down menu that allows creating a document, a survey, an event, a community, etc.

Our SharePoint experts provided control over a user’s country location through Active Directory. Thus, the intranet can identify users by their country location. Depending on it, the employee portal can display the navigation either in English or in Spanish, as well as the localized content. Besides, users can change the main navigation language manually or via language settings in their user profile. What’s more, a built-in translation capability relying on the Bing application functionality was introduced into the employee portal. It can be used for translating blogs, news, comments, etc. The supported languages are English and Spanish.

As a Result, The Customer got an employee portal deployed in Office 365.The flexibility of the employee portal based on SharePoint Online allows updating news or other information easily and freely adding or changing the tiles according to the Customer’s needs. The three-level navigation simplifies moving around the employee portal and Office 365 applications.

Feature

Three levels of navigation:

SharePoint navigation panel - As the employee portal was deployed in Office 365, it gives access to all other Office 365 applications. This panel also provides access to user profiles, inbox notifications, and SharePoint settings.
Employee Portal navigation panel - This panel includes such areas as People, Communities, and more. It helps employees to locate and navigate to key spaces or registered users.
Useful Links tile - This tile navigates users directly to key pages of the employee portal.

User Manuals for:

All users - This user manual contains the information about the portal’s layout and navigation, content management, notifications, etc.
Community managers - This manual explains how to add tiles to the portal pages, edit visual content, and manage blogs.