Document Management for Government Web Site

With the combo you've suggested, the only thing missing would be folders, but have you considered using taxonomy categories as a substitute for folders? It's pretty much the same thing, since you can have categories ordered in hierarchies the same as with folders.

Off the top of my head I can't remember how Views and Taxonomy integrate, but I'd be surprised if you couldn't create a view based on categories.

That's pretty much the way it's done-- you might want to check out the filefield module instead of upload and maybe the taxonomy_image module to assign images to your document terms.

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I think with the modules you have plus the http://drupal.org/project/uploadpath module you can do that fine. It works with the core upload module, and if each one file attachment correspond to one node, you can set up the browsing part using taxonomy and table-like views.

Filefield is still a bit rough around the edges and I think it can't store in directories.

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Edit: I just saw a filefield_paths module (stil in development), so probably filefield soon will be able to support upload paths as well. A good thing because filefield is precious for designated uploads in a standardized node type.

I spoke too soon, I'm still not satisfied with the list display of my uploaded documents. I created a new content type "minutes," where each uploaded file is attached to a single node. Each node has required fields for the name of the agency and the meeting date. Using Views, I can display a list of all nodes meeting my criteria, sorted the way I want, but I don't know how to achieve a nested list, where all meetings of one agency are grouped under the agency name, followed by the next agency and their meetings, and so on.

I've searched this site extensively and it appears many people have the same desire, but no solution is evident to me. I'm not wedded to using Views for this, and in fact have tried many other means (Taxonomy, Node Hierarchy), but nothing quite gives what I want. I'm not yet prepared to move my production site to Drupal 6.