A HIGH PERFORMANCE MULTI-CLIENT SYSTEM WITH TYPO3
A TYPO3 modular system for own internet presences of the parishes and institutions of the Protestant Church in Württemberg.

Challenge and solution approach
The Protestant Church in Württemberg has 2 million members in 1210 parishes. For many congregations and institutions, operating their own website is a major challenge, both financially and in terms of resources. As early as 2001, Evanglisches Medienhaus initiated a concept to develop a web-based modular system as an efficient, easy-to-learn and flexible offering. The solution was a TYPO3 modular system, which is now in its 4th generation of further development. Communities and institutions thus have an interactive tool with a wide range of features and possibilities for content presentation in CD-compliant layouts. With over 1000 mandates it's one of the largest TYPO3 multisite systems.

Special framework conditions and custom-fit implementation
The high number of clients or customers generates many different needs. Thus, a scope of services had to be defined and developed that would meet as many requirements as possible while remaining scalable and expandable. This resulted in a large number of individual solutions for extensions and a very extensive rights system. There are very high demands on the performance of the system, i.e. the interaction between TYPO3 and the servers must be constantly monitored and, if necessary, adapted and optimized.

Strong technical features and benefits
- Latest template technology based on ExtBase/Fluid
- Multisite color management for fast layout productions
- Builder wizard for website creation in seconds with all necessary group and page permissions
- Integration of the SOLR search engine for internal as well as for cross-site searches
- Novel, flexible news system on a page basis
- Backend suggestion system for messages and events, i.e. data can be taken over by a modular editor for others to adopt in their modular system
- Geomap plugins with various output functions, integration of external kml data
- XLS exporter and importer for different dataset types
- Data encryption in the backend
- Diverse content design options with an extensive grid system