[Doubt] Good practices in customer portal development

Hello everyone!

I am currently developing an internal tool with different roles.

  • Customer
  • Commercial
  • Team

To try to organize the urls I have added custom paths for the parts that are specific to each role.

Example:
www.web.com/customer/my-contract
www.web.com/customer/contract-details
www.web.com/team/customers
www.web.com/team/customer-details
www.web.com/commercial/channel
www.web.com/commercial/channel-details
www.web.com/commercial/channel-contracts

My question is:

Is it correct to divide it this way? or is it better to make common pages and have different blocks with visibility according to role?

Another doubt.
Is it better to hide the module according to role? or in the page configuration, hide according to role?

I attach images.
Block visibility

Page visibility

How do you work it?

Thank you!

I think the answers to your questions would really depend on your use case and what you are trying to achieve for your user experience. You present two very viable pathways to divide the content by user role, so either one could work. If it were me, I would ask myself a few questions to decide which path is best:

  1. Is there some content that all users should see for certain content? If so, it might be better to make common pages with differentiated blocks so that you don’t have to maintain shared content in two places
  2. Is the most logical way for different users to access the content the same for each user role? For example, if I am a commercial user, will I look for the content following the same navigational structure as a team user? If not, then it might be better to have differentiated pages to make it easier for each user group to navigate to what they need based on their use case.

As for your second doubt about whether to hide the page overall or the blocks on the pages, for me, that would probably depend on whether you take the page-differentiated or block-differentiated approach for your site structure. If all of the content of a given page is only for a specific user group, then you might as well set the visibility for the entire page (that is both easier for you to maintain and more secure because you don’t have to remember to change the visibility of every block). However, if you are differentiating content within the pages, then you would take the block visibility approach to allow all users to see some content on the page, but have some content only visible to certain users.

Good questions! I imagine others in the community might have additional thoughts as well!

@RafaPG, @Derek has great thoughts above. In my experience one always ends up in an hybrid approach. Having separate paths/pages could work if you really have groups of pages that are only visible to a single group of users. Also page and block level I try to suggest doing both as it helps with an extra level of protection.

Great! Thank you very much for your opinion @Derek , @artur.

It has helped me a lot to clarify the concept.

In this case I will opt for a hybrid system, since there are common and specific pages.

Thank you very much!

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