Need advice on best way to show software list with install notes
Hi.
I'd like to use Drupal or other CMS to expand our company intranet to included a software current version / install notes page for many software packages.
We currently have a mostly organized directory of software with the occasional Install-Notes doc on a windows network share. We are a marine survey company with over 100 pieces of gear from dozens of manufactures and use another dozen software packages to collect data with this gear. All in all it's a firmware and software update nightmare. We keep it pretty well organized but at least one or more packages is updated weekly so making sure everyone has the latest updates is inefficient.
What I'd like to set up is something like a what's new page for each piece of software with a persistent link at the top of the page that opens windows file explorer to the appropriate network share and below that have install notes that can be added to by users.
I'm not sure how I'd to navigate these pages, maybe filterable/sortable spreadsheet like list of: software, category, manufacturer, and last update of webpage.
Any advice on how to best accomplish this would be appreciated.
Thanks, Dave
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This is totally subjective and there's certainly more than one way to approach it, but assuming a manufacturer can have multiple entries, i would probably setup a content type for each type of item to inventory (ie software, hardware, etc) and then use taxonomy to assign manufacturer.
You can then use views to create all sorts of listings of your info as well as views_datasource to export your views into different formats (including csv which can be used with spreadsheet programs if desired).
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