collaborative software?
Hey, all!
This is not quite a drupal question, but I have a drupal site.
My site has a Gallery, I keep hard copies of everything, including txt files of the HTML used in the albums.
I recently got two administrators for the gallery portion but they have to keep me updated whenever they change something, etc etc.
I heard about collaborative software and I'm interested... something where I could maintain my images and text files as they are (as opposed to converting them to wiki style), and the other two could edit them. I don't trust servers too much, though, which is why I have the hard copy in the first place.
Does anyone have any advice?
I don't need really advanced functions, I don't need email, I don't need a calendar, just be able to collaboratively manage these text files (they're getting to be hundreds) and images (thousands).
Anisa.
Drupal is a collaborative
Drupal is a collaborative software (?)
I mean, more than 1 users can edit a book, page, product (ecommerce) etc
In Drupal Access Control List which is the key to collaborative organization website , you can create new roles and call it whatever you want, and assign it whatever things they should be able to do
Short of - administer users, and administer databases (if using DB.module) since these usually are the reserve of you as the owner (webmaster)
Book, page, story, can be created by the WRITERS or contributors and edited, moderated, published or deleted by you. In turn, you can assign them these `editor' roles
(Book page story are default Drupal package)
And you can create an article etc and put a name on it (change it in Author's information field) and also the date and time stamp
I am having a 104000 members E-Commerce and officials who can add, edit, delete users and products.
*Sorry if I misunderstood your question :) But newbies who read this thread's title will hopefully understand what I have thought as a proposal for Collaborative portal :)
Oh, maybe you will also use the upload (attachment) to upload the text files and images, and let other users add edited text files (revisions) by enabling them to edit and revise the same node
Yeah, I'm pretty used to
Yeah, I'm pretty used to Drupal by now, and it's not what I want. I use drupal for its community features, and because I like it. I'm NOT saying that Drupal is in anyway NOT collaborative software, I guess it's just not what I need for this specific purpose? I think mine is a rather rare case.
I have hundreds of these files. I don't want them changed in anyway. They aren't proper html, they are just text, because they contain both the album description and the album summary.
Using the upload feature is just uploading and downloading again, it's not quite the same.
Some day, I would like to have them on Drupal, but in a certain way... I can't figure out how to do that yet. I do this in my free time, and it would take less time to just have them send the info to me and I edit it.
Sort of looking for something small and effortless, designed specifically for collaboratively editing *documents*, ie, text files as text files, excel files as excel files.
Anyway, just looking for advice. I'm definitely not going to replace my Drupal site with anything else, this is just something on the side to manage all the files. I looked at some stuff on Wikipedia, but you know how it is... they all seem good, but are they really what I need?
Anisa.
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A document archive
Hmm - what you are describing sounds like a document archive where people you keep a changelog, know who checked out what document, and when, and what they did to it. Have a look at the features of software like OWL document repository or KnowledgeTree, which should give you some inspiration.
Re: Collaborative Editor
There is a collaborative editor module for drupal under development.
For details, take a look here: http://drupal.org/project/collaborative_editor
It was developed under Google's summer of code 2006, and it's still CVS.
Maybe a sponsorship to the author will help to finish it.
Amnon
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That's good to know, thank
That's good to know, thank you! I'd love to move it all to Drupal, because ideally, everyone would collaborate on it, but right now it's just me and 2 admins.
Anisa.
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Collaborative software
Hi.
I keep track of my textfiles using CVS; under Windows, I use TortoiseCVS which is a really user-friendly interface.
Pete.