Document management system with version control and access rights control?

Posted by bartt2 on October 25, 2012 at 4:14pm

I have a set of requirements (not well fleshed out) that cover a system to manage documents (word docs, designs, etc.) for both internal and external use. Basically what we need is a system that allows users to have multiple versions of docs online, publish at will and keep working on new revs. We also need to have inside and outside facing interfaces with access control and permissions enforcement (this might be best covered with separate sites and doc pushes to the outside facing interface). Conversion from word docs to html or XML has been discussed as part of this.
I looked at OpenPublish, but I am not sure that it really fits well..
So, the question is: Is there a distribution or a set of modules already in place that closely approximates this set of requirements, or am I looking a tough rocky climb to get where we need to be?

Thanks in advance.
Bart

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Posted by WorldFallz on October 28, 2012 at 3:43pm

True document management is the one area where drupal is still really lacking. There is the http://drupal.org/project/document module, but I haven't tried it yet. Low usage modules with a single maintainer always make me nervous-- I wouldn't want to commit an important functionality like document management to a module that could easily end up abandoned.

If I had to do doc mgmt now, I'd look at integrating with alfresco-- even if the drupal module dies, alfresco itself is still a solid product. There's the http://drupal.org/project/cmis and http://drupal.org/project/alfresco modules (though the cmis one seems more solid atm).

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Thank you for your reply. The

Posted by bartt2 on October 29, 2012 at 3:43pm

Thank you for your reply.
The research that I conducted while waiting lead me to the same conclusion. While Drupal seems a natural for this non-trivial task, I guess it needs some time to mature in this area.
I'll look more closely at your suggestions to see if I can afford the time to get them working for us.

Also look

Posted by zeezhao on October 30, 2012 at 10:51am

Also look at:
http://drupal.org/project/filedepot

http://drupal.org/project/webfm

Thank you for the

Posted by bartt2 on October 30, 2012 at 4:12pm

Thank you for the suggestions..

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Posted by WorldFallz on November 1, 2012 at 3:34pm

Those are more file management than document management. Though filedepot mentions document management, I don't consider versioned files to be true document management.

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Doc management solution found?

Posted by hondaman900 on February 27, 2013 at 4:44pm

Hi Bartt2, did you ever find a good document management solution for Drupal? I'd love to know if you reached a resolution/conclusion as this is a current topic of discussion/debate at our college.

Thanks in advance.

Ditto!

Posted by Drupalbee on March 20, 2013 at 7:15pm

Has anyone found a decent solution for this area yet? If so please share! :-)

Thank you!