IT Department Service Offering: Information Systems Management

The “IBEXA INRAE web service” tool is one of the offerings made available in the service catalogue of the Information Systems Department (DSI), specifically under the “Support and Proximity IT > Collaborative Services and Communication” domain.

For which types of sites? What is the scope of Solutions Web?

• Internet and intranet sites for units, platforms, research projects, networks, and metaprograms
• Intranet sites for centres and departments

To review before requesting the creation of a site

What do you expect from your website? What content and structure will it have? Who will be involved in the project? …

The document prepared by the Communications Department will guide you in making decisions when requesting a website creation.

What the tool enables

Personalisation of the site:

• Configurable homepage – you can display an editorial piece, news items, a banner, an image gallery, etc.
• Site colour can be changed within the offered palette.

Publication of content in both French and English.

Online publication of all types of files (text, photos, audio, video…).

Secure access to selected sections, using INRAE LDAP or external LDAP authentication.

Creation of simple, configurable forms that can be set up by the site manager.

Assignment of editor rights for specific parts of the site.

Requesting a new site

The request form is available in Ariane at the following address:

https://ariane.inrae.fr/block?id=ariane_sc_cat_item&sys_id=4a5566b40fc446006c18929792050e4b

Mandatory fields

• Project title – this text appears in the browser’s tab.

Requested site type – select from the list provided. This information allows us to map the tool’s usage according to site typology.

Access type – reminder: centre‑ and department‑level Internet sites are described on the www.inrae.fr website and should not be requested as an eZ Platform site.

Desired URL – the URL depends on the scope of your site

Local scope (unit support, service, research site)

• Internet: https://identifier.centre.hub.inrae.fr/
• Intranet: http://identifier.centre.intranet.inrae.fr/

National scope

• Internet (project site, network, consortium, …): https://identifier.hub.inrae.fr
• Intranet (direction, department intranet …): https://identifier.intranet.inrae.fr

Note – The identifier must contain only lower‑case letters, no accented or special characters, and must not exceed 30 characters (including hyphens).

Site colour – this colour can be changed with a single click in the back‑office (content‑creation/modification interface).

Site language – all sites are bilingual; you must choose:

• French translatable into English for a site whose primary version is French.
• English translatable into French for a site whose primary version is English.

If your site is monolingual, you must hide the language switcher.
For INRAE structures (Direction, Department, Unit, …) only the “French translatable into English” option will be accepted.

E‑mail address of the alerts sender – the address that will appear as the sender of notification e‑mails sent to visitors who subscribe to one or more news channels. This address can be customised in the back‑office by the site manager.

This site is requested for – specify whether this is a brand‑new site or an existing one.

Name of the publication responsible – the designated person (unit director or project leader) is legally responsible for any content disputes on the site.

Name of the main site manager – the person who administers the site and is in charge of adding other users.

Validation – to submit your request you must accept the two options below:

• I accept the service’s terms of use.
• I have approved the institution’s IT‑resource usage charter.

The INRAE IT‑resource user charter can be consulted at: https://intranet.inrae.fr/NS/ns2008-51.htm

User support

The IT Department has decided to outsource part of its user support in order to improve performance.

What type of assistance? Bug reporting, request for help with a specific feature.

How to contact this support? Via the Ariane portal: https://ariane.inrae.fr/block

• Search on the portal
• Section “I need help” → Support and Proximity IT
• Or directly: https://ariane.inrae.fr/block?id=ariane_sc_cat_item&sys_id=906528a10a0a0bf000a85bc20dfb6541

In the form, specify the domain and service as follows: (the precise wording to be filled in the form).