Hi Michael,
I have just seen your post and I thought I may be able to offer you some advice. I work at Frog as part of the design team who, as well as designing the graphics, work on actually designing the end user interface and finding uses of the Frog System. We are currently preparing for Bett 2009 and thus are creating mini applications using the tools currently available within the Frog system.
What you are trying to achieve can be easily accomplished using the tagging features currently available on Frog. You would have to tag the photographs of the members of staff with the information that you wish to display. This would of course include the department but using more tags on the same photograph would mean that you could use it again in other areas.
One example of this is that Mr Smith may be part of the English department so would therefore appear in the English department directory. You could also then add a tag of, say, “Year7_formteacher” and so the same photograph and information would also appear under a defined Year 7 Form Teacher directory.
All the photographs used would be searchable and you would therefore be able to create a design and application matching your specific needs.
This is all possible with the current technology. However, we are currently working on Frog 3.0 for Bett 2009 and this has many new features, one of them being a profile system which can be used in a more interactive way, thereby allowing the user to manage their own profile and share information easily with other members of their community.
If you require any more help please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Karl
www.frogtrade.com
