Supplier Directory
What is the best practice/best solution for setting up a supplier/contractor directory? Typically in the past we have listed preferred suppliers on a word document in a shared space, however, we want to move them to our intranet now so they are searchable. We're thinking wiki, but wanted to see if anyone else had success with a different widget.
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Brigid Towler I think it looks really neat when you surface all the wiki articles on a page using the wiki article widget and the equal-columns class and I have done something very similar in my own DWP. However, it's very time consuming, especially if you add a new article and you want them displayed alphabetically!
Jamie Manship I have filed an enhancement suggestion in the AHA system to request a Wiki Articles Widget that will display all the articles from a wiki channel, you can go and upvote it here: https://igloocustomercare.ideas.aha.io/ideas/CARE-I-578.
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Hi Jamie Manship
I managed Igloo digital workplaces prior to joining the team here and had the best success with the wiki approach. Something I had started to play with was the formatting of wikis to be really tight, like a contact card of sorts, using transparent tables to wrap text. Then each wiki article can be displayed on a page in groups or by type of contact. Sort of like the screenshot attached using rows and the equal-columns class. Super searchable by the individual article but then also easy to provide a colleague with a single URL for all the contacts they’re after in a directory-style page.
You could also throw an accordion class on these if the page is feeling long or too text-heavy.
Brigid Towler This looks amazing, just a lot more work than I need to spend unless there is a way that I'm not seeing to achieve this without adding each wiki to a page separately.
Thanks, Jamie Manship! Yes, this configuration uses a unique wiki article for each contact through a single page using different wiki article widgets.
Easier would be to surface them in a wiki index, even easier to put all contacts in one article. This really depends on your use case and the complexity of contact list.
Brigid Towler I think it looks really neat when you surface all the wiki articles on a page using the wiki article widget and the equal-columns class and I have done something very similar in my own DWP. However, it's very time consuming, especially if you add a new article and you want them displayed alphabetically!
Jamie Manship I have filed an enhancement suggestion in the AHA system to request a Wiki Articles Widget that will display all the articles from a wiki channel, you can go and upvote it here: https://igloocustomercare.ideas.aha.io/ideas/CARE-I-578.
Sarah Brown Great idea. I voted for it and will get some of my team too as well.
Jamie Manship Hello James - My name is Will and I work for Mosaique who are Igloo Partners based in the UK.
We have built something similar to this for one of our customers. Do you want to set up a call to go through your use case more and see if our widget is aligned to your needs?
Thank you in advance.