Document Management

pablov2 - April 5, 2006 - 09:56

I looking for a Document Management for drupal, i have search on google and druapl forum but i cant found any module or solution.

Anyone know if there are a script or module out here?

thanks.. if someone need it i will start to write a script...

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I need Document Management too ....

MartinSfromB - April 5, 2006 - 10:09

and didn't find something. I would help to write it .... my intension is something like this : http://www.rjk-hosting.co.uk/programs/prog.php?id=3 ... it saves to db, i think wie should use filesystem instead but this script has all functions a document management system needs.

thxx for the link

pablov2 - April 6, 2006 - 08:24

I have tried it yet, i think i would able to modify from there to make onething more usefull...

Things to do:

+ change to use a filesystem
+ add some more information on the upload and db
+ add a form to search on db
+ add a printout table to show all the entris or the searched...

(please sorry for my poor forgotten english)

The link was ...

MartinSfromB - April 7, 2006 - 11:08

only to show what we need. I think the way should be another but changin dcm. We need a Drupal Module. All documents should be a node to make it compatible. We need to create a nodetype with the description of the document an other, we should use upload module to manage the physical file. .... right?

we can use flexinode...

pablov2 - May 3, 2006 - 09:37

I will try to do it with flexinode, and a flexisearch.... but i dont sure if it will be useful ....

I working now on it...

Serious product exists but no integration with Drupal

cpotter - April 23, 2006 - 20:10

Here are 2 serious DMS opensource products :

- KnowledgeTree http://www.ktdms.com/products/ktdmsfeatures (look very powerfull)
- MyDMS http://dms.markuswestphal.de/about.html (already integrated in eGroupWare)

I am going to work on an integration

blakeong - May 11, 2006 - 06:35

I understand that Drupal has a proposal for a DMS during the Google summer code, but I am kinda in a rush to deliver a DMS for a client. After searching high and low... and comparing Joomla! and Drupal, i have decided to integrate Drupal with KnowledgeTree. If anyone have a good knowledge on KnowledgeTree before, do let me know about critical steps needed to integrate this two products. Thanks.

good idea

bradleyg - May 20, 2006 - 08:43

i was thinking of integrating knowledge tree into drupal.. any luck on this yet?

me, too

rwelti - June 26, 2006 - 18:28

We also want to get a good media management system integrated with Drupal,
and I'm interested in what you are doing. I will share anything I can find out.

Status of Knowledge Tree DMS integration

cpotter - January 13, 2007 - 09:51

I am really interested by this project. I can't contribute as I am not developping since 10 years :-( But I can help for the tests.

In addition, my compagny looks to start a new intranet. Having a serious DMS like KT integrated with Drupal gives a better chance for Drupal to be considered

Chris

Integration

vasydc - May 3, 2007 - 20:56

Did you ever integrate Knowledge Tree and Drupal? what were the pros and cons? We are in the process of doing the same thing--please, any info would be incredibly helpful.

Searching for the same thing

towninco - September 14, 2006 - 20:41

In assembling my CivicSpace installation, I was gobsmacked to find that there was no "Library" module (I have hundreds of docs and pdfs I want to make available to our working groups through our site) A DMS seems a pretty obvious requirement for many of us in grassroots/political organizations. And, clearly judging by the hundreds of similar requests I find during my own searches, we're not the only ones. So, while I wish I could contribute some development expertise, I really do need a relatively easy installation.

One developer on CS suggested I create some combination of the following:

- disknode
- fileshare node
- file request
- filebrowser
- filebrowser extensions

Alternative: maybe set up a wiki? (Shows you how little I know.)

Or maybe linking to something else...? I looked, too, at KnowledgeTree. But the possibilities of integrating it are beyond my current capacity. Have you had any luck finding something?

Town in Common

Document Management : Drupal should have one

cpotter - September 19, 2006 - 12:40

I agree. A lot of Drupal users seems to need a DMS with Word/OpenOffice, PDF indexing, better revision control, better access rights, ...

For your information, and only on the indexing side, there was one module working with 4.6 releases, it was called swish-e . I don't know if it has been upgraded to 4.7 but I hope it is the case.

Otherwise, good DMS candidate to be integrated with Drupal are IMHO :

- Knowledge Tree (http://www.ktdms.com)
- OWL (http://owl.sourceforge.net/)
- Commercial and very powerful : X1 http://www.x1.com (engine used by Yahoo Desktop)

Regards,
Chris

DMS and word searching

roeball - November 30, 2006 - 04:58

If there is a DMS that can be integrated with Drupal, would the words contained within each of the MS Word Documents be keyword searchable? Is that even a possibility? This could truely benefit many of the sites out there.

Web File Module

robmilne - January 22, 2007 - 14:10

I submitted a new 4.7 file management module in the first week of 2007 that fulfills many of your requirements. It is currently deployed by an institutional client that required an asset management tool for 3 gigabytes of pdfs. The module isn't version control software. This is the project page.

DocMGR+Drupal?Build a powerful FOSS alternative to Sharepoint!

davidbl - February 16, 2007 - 09:15

DocMGR is another open source/free DMS based on web with PostgreSQL as backend.
Another nice one is Knowledge Tree DMS
They are worth a look:

http://wiki.docmgr.org/index.php/DocMGR
http://wiki.docmgr.org/index.php/Screenshots

http://www.knowledgetree.com
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kt-dms/

I think that Firefox+OpenOffice.org+Drupal+(DOCMGR or some other FOSS DMS) can prove a really robust and most exciting true multi-platform and Free software alternatives as intranet and document management system for many business to the privative bunch of M$ programs: Explorer+M$Office+SharePoint.

There are as well existing modules integrating Firefox+OpenOffice.org that could be taken advantage of:
http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/02/view-open-document-text-files-with-fi...
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4102/

It could also be very nice to explore the possibility of integrating Drupal+event module with Sunbird-Lightning/Calendar , Drupal would make for an extraordinary caldav/icalendar server for Sunbird/Thunderbird clients and even a plausible substitute for exchange!
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/
http://www.libervis.com/blogs/5/charles/ooocon_2006_whats_next_for_openo...
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/calendar/

I think its worth exploring the possibility of building extensions and/or modules/plugins to make these free software stalwarts integrate and work togheteher, thus building on the capabilities and popularity of each other.

Best regards.
David B.

Possible way of implementing OpenOffice integration

davidbl - March 12, 2007 - 07:20

http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/22/1727218&from=rss

Rather than all that

singularo - July 16, 2007 - 08:03

Rather than all that conversion, odt files can be just displayed.

http://www.drupal.org/project/inline_odt/

Does that help at all?

ye.Sounds Nice. I've tried

luffer - May 4, 2008 - 06:14

ye.Sounds Nice. I've tried knowledge tree . it's powerful !

Alfresco

fschaap - February 16, 2007 - 14:20

Has anyone given Alfresco a look?

I'm not a developer, so I can't say a thing about the posibilities and/or positives of hooking it up to Drupal, but Alfresco seems to be getting good reviews and from what I'm reading on their site, seems quite capable.

As a solution to the original poster's request it might be overkill though.

Seems pretty solid, but it

ematters - March 12, 2007 - 04:20

Seems pretty solid, but it runs on Java it seems. Usually this complicates a whole lot the hosting part since Java's not such a common environment compared to PHP.

But I'd definitely consider it on a dedicated server environment (in fact I'll give it a try). Drupal does a great job for "lightweight" CMS, but it falls short when it comes to DMS and more specialized CMS aspects.

subscribing to thread

chlobe - May 15, 2007 - 06:42

I'm interested in how the knowledge tree integration to Drupal is progressing

Knowledge Tree

MartinSfromB - May 15, 2007 - 07:54

KT is my first choice for document management this time. Is someone working on integrating with drupal? I'd like to do it if not done.

Knowledge tree Integration

haimoura - June 22, 2007 - 13:24

hi,
i'va created a basic module to integrate Knowledge tree with drupal, you can find the module here KT module.
I hope that you test this module and give me a feed back.

So this is an old post, but

Josiah@missions... - January 9, 2008 - 19:34

So this is an old post, but it came up in my search so others might like to see it also. There is at least one module that addresses this need now. See http://drupal.org/project/webfm

Document Management

ArjanLikesDrupal - March 5, 2008 - 17:47

So is their any available solution for Drupal (6), or is there any project being worked on? I can't seem to find any.

I'm comparing several CMS's to set up a website for a small NGO that needs a multilingual (Dutch, Spanish and English) site. In many respects Drupal seems like a solid choice, but some form of document management to offer downloads (mainly pdf) to the public is needed. File meta-information (Author, Title, Year/Date, Journal, keywords, abstract), and a function to search offered downloads (by meta-information, not necesarily by document content)...

I see questions like mine are not new. Unfortunately I'm not a coder and can't help develop such a project...

I've used a lot of different

jasonruyle - March 28, 2008 - 23:07

I've used a lot of different content management systems and found that drupal can do just about anything if you plan well and are patient. I would recommend installing a copy of it and playing around with permissions, cck, and profile. The CCK module allows you to build just about any type of form system where users can enter data.

After a couple hours of playing around, you will either find its the right solution for you, or will realize that its beyond your capabilities.

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i do stuff

Yeah, it's like Jasonruyle

flickerfly - April 4, 2008 - 15:23

Yeah, it's like Jasonruyle said. Drupal is more about providing the building blocks to build a solution easily. It doesn't necessarily give you a solution out of the box. With CCK you can likely accomplish exactly what you want, but D6 isn't quite ready yet with all these pieces. Drupal 5 is if you're in a bit of a hurry.