By nlarzill on

Hi,

After searching on various forums, I didn't find a decent solution for Document Management with Drupal.

It should include the following abilities :

- a repository that allows you to upload and organize documents (maybe with document versioning).
- a workflow system so that various authors and individuals can collaborate.
- an orderly way of organizing and fetching documents.
- a permissions system for managing who has access to the documents.
- to be able to store metadata about documents.

Is anyone aware of an existing solution (anything like DocMan for Joomla for instance), or informed about current developments ?

Thanks for any news,
Nicolas

Comments

robmilne’s picture

robmilne commented

I'm plugging my own module. It can do most of what you are asking for.

dldege’s picture

dldege commented

I made a module that did some of this (it did not address check out or collaborative authoring) but did allow you create folders and documents as nodes. It used filenmanger module for the server side file management. This was a 4.7 module and I have not ported it to 5.0 and was considering starting over since I'm better at drupal now then when I wrote it.

At first I envisioned it as replacing upload.module but then realized that that module as is is essential and that there needs to be a distinction between DMS and files that are simply attachments to other nodes.

I'd like to see more discussion of what a DMS in Drupal should or should not do as I'm sure I'll be making something for 5.0 soon and while I'll have my own requirements I'd like to include other points of view.

dLd