Knowing the portal requirements

You are now aware of the portal components and the way to get information related to each component. Now, we will discuss the requirements of the portal (CIGNEX Neighborhood) which we are going to implement in this book.

CIGNEX Neighborhood portal

We need to implement a portal for CIGNEX Neighborhood—http://neighbourhood.cignex.com. The portal will be used by the CIGNEX Neighborhood members. We want to replicate the existing structure of CIGNEX Neighborhood to this portal. All the members are organized as shown in the following diagram:

In the preceding structure, the Neighborhood Congress is the top-level entity and Security Council, Chamber of Commerce, and Arbitration Committee are the sub-level entities. The permissions flow from top to bottom. We want our users to be structured in this format. We need to provide different applications in each group for the members to be productive and collaborative.

Along with the applications mentioned in each group, the...