Create the worker sites

Introduction

A worker site is a web site your users work in: it has its own address, sign-in, theme, language and menu of pages. The tutorial has two:

Worker site Address Users
Grant Portal https://grants.casewhere.com/ applicants
Grant Caseworker https://grants-caseworker.casewhere.com/ caseworkers

Both sign in through the Tutorial IdP connection. With Verify Worker Site Claim on, a user can sign in to a site only when the IdP lists the site's address in the user's AccessibleWorkerSites claim: an applicant cannot open the caseworkers' site, even by typing its address.

The host names must reach your Casewhere worker site: in IIS, the Casewhere.Worker.Web site needs an HTTPS binding for each, and DNS (or the hosts file on a developer machine) must point them to the server.

Create the theme

The sites are styled by a theme.

  1. Check that Grant Applications is selected in the product selector.

  2. Open Themes in the menu and click Create.

  3. Fill in General:

    Field Value
    Name Grant Applications
    Description Theme of the Grant Applications tutorial sites.
    Layout type Default (sidebar)

    Create Theme

  4. Click Save And Close.

The theme starts from Casewhere's standard components (header, menu, footer); you can change them later in Casewhere Components and Custom Components.

Create Grant Portal

  1. Open Worker Sites in the menu and click Create.

  2. Fill in General Settings:

    Field Value
    Name Grant Portal
    Uri grants.casewhere.com
    Is Https ☑
    Title Grant Portal
    Theme Grant Applications
    Is Active ☑

    Create Worker Site, General Settings

    Uri is the bare host name: no https://, no path.

  3. Open Security:

    Field Value
    Enable Anonymous User ☐
    IdP Connection Tutorial IdP
    Entity ID https://grants.casewhere.com
    Enable SSO ☑
    Verify Worker Site Claim ☑

    Create Worker Site, Security

    The Entity ID identifies the site to the IdP. With a real IdP, register it there as a service provider (relying party).

  4. Open Localization:

    Field Value
    Default Language English
    Timezone (UTC+01:00) Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris

    Create Worker Site, Localization

  5. Click Save.

Create Grant Caseworker

Create the second site the same way, with these values:

Field Value
Name Grant Caseworker
Uri grants-caseworker.casewhere.com
Title Grant Caseworker
Entity ID https://grants-caseworker.casewhere.com

All other settings are the same as for Grant Portal.

The Worker Sites list

Try it

Open https://grants.casewhere.com/ in a browser. The site sends you to the IdP; sign in as Anna Berg. You come back to an empty Grant Portal with Anna's name at the top: the site has no pages yet. You add them in Build the applicant portal.

Next: Build the submission workflow.