Building a feature-packed CMS for the website in just 3 weeks

The Story

«Red Collar» is a full-cycle digital agency with 12 years of experience. The company employs about 140 people, with major clients in finance, retail, mobile, and other industries.
One of Red Collar's clients is Bronitex, a factory manufacturing work gloves. Bronitex needed a website to manage certain internal processes and also help with external tasks, such as communicating with customers, partners, and job applicants. The project had to be delivered in a rapid time frame: just 2 months.

The website's functionality was to include:

• Gloves catalogue, with filters and animations
• Hiring section
• Feedback forms for customers and partners
• CMS to self-manage the website

It was also important for the customer that they could update the website themselves, without any external support, so the CMS had to be friendly. Red Collar’s project team consisted of 9 members:

• project manager
• 2 web designers
• 1 backend developer
• 3 frontend developers
• 2 QA

Why Jmix

For the CMS, the team chose the Jmix platform. Red Collar actually started looking into Jmix several months before the project, which gave them a head start and allowed them to use the platform to the fullest. Jmix proved a perfect fit for the backend of the website.

Solution

In just 2.5 months, the «Red Collar» team created a website with all the functionality requested by the client:

Gloves Catalogue

Customers can view the range of products on the website, while the Bronitex team can work with product cards through the administrative interface: creating product units for display and filtering the search results on the website.
When creating a product, there is a text description available, a parameter for displaying the product on the home page, product images, a size range, and tables with units of measurement.

Hiring Section with Job Posts Vacancies

A special section on the website allows posting vacancies and managing responses. The vacancy card shows such fields as the position, responsibilities, etc.
The HR manager can view responses and interact with them: answer the candidate's request and change the vacancy status.

Support

The website also offers feedback forms that can be managed through the administrative interface.

Role & Access Settings

The project has a role system that grants access to different sections of the website's CMS. Jmix allows users to easily tune access permits for any role. For instance: :

• The administrators have the full access
• HR can interact with the job section
• Support interacts only with feedback forms
• Sales managers can view orders

Image Editor

Since uploaded photos often exceeded 10-20 MB, which could affect the performance of the website, «Red Collar» created a module that compressed images upon upload almost without any loss of quality.