Rybak Engineering manages complex fire protection engineering projects. These projects include team members from other organizations: building owners, contractors, architects, consulting firms, etc. They asked Guy With Glasses to develop a project management portal — a web application to assist internal and external team members with project status, details, and alerts.
Features of this Drupal website include:
- The front end is Rybak’s public website.
- The password-protected back end is the project management portal.
- The permissions system determines which projects a user has access to.
- Serves as central repository for project status, details, and alerts.
- Systems to help team members collaborate include:
- Automatic alert emails sent to users with any ‘show stopper'’ problems on their projects. Alerts are also displayed on user dashboard pages.
- A project notes system allows team members to have threaded discussions.
- Serves as repository for customer preferences like equipment brands, design specifications, etc.
- Easy for Rybak admins to add new clients and jobs.
- Easy to maintain.
- Convenient clutter-reducing system to archive inactive clients — and easy to reactivate at later time.
