[CentOS] Document Management System

[Troy Engel]

Joao,

Following this thread as well -- I am familiar with DocMgr and KTDMS, 
and just started evaluating MyDMS. My hints on getting MyDMS working:

- set register_globals=on in php.ini, restart apache
- download the "with adodb" tarball; warning, it's a double-gzipped 
tarball (gah), gzip -d <foo> then rename it back to .tar.gz
- chgrp -R apache /path/to/content; chmod -R g+w /path/to/content

The rest was straight mysql work and seemed to go without error, the 
standard "create database foo; grant all privileges on foo.* to 
foo at localhost identified by 'bar';", then logging in as foo at localhost to 
db foo, and running create_tables.sql.

My thoughts so far:

KTDMS: very powerful, horrible UI - they make several (many) UI 
transgressions that make it unuseable by the lay-person (I showed our 
information architects the default UI and they cringed visibly). I put 
about 20hrs into rewriting the UI to get it at least acceptable, and am 
still not happy. The way it tracks changes and has the checkout 
mechanism is nice, but a normal user can't un-checkout a doc. There's 
almost too much information available to a non-power user, it could use 
a third tier user that can't do the esoteric stuff.

DocMgr: very straight forward, but the way they manage users and groups 
drives me up the wall. About 2 years ago I took and old version and 
basically revamped the entire user/group system for an internal project 
(a one-off); they still haven't "gotten it right" if you ask me. The UI 
is clean though, and it seems to do the job well.

MyDMS: in my initial messing with it following this thread, it seems ok 
-- the attaching users to groups is a little awkward, as is setting up 
initial folder access hierarchys. But it has a clean interface, supports 
the locking of files and looks very easy to use to the lay-person. I'm 
going to continue working with it, it seems not-so-bad -- I'm thinking 
using their theme interface will help a lot, to tone down those fonts 
and get it a little more tight.

My $0.02 US. :)
-te

Joao Medeiros wrote:
> Thanks Barry and Mike,
> 
> I found DocMgr easier to install and to manage although MyDMS looks great
> and I especially like the folder which expands.
> 
> Shame I could only get it to work after a few hours compared to DocMgr which
> was pretty straightforward. The forum for MyDMS is not such a big help and
> Google only retrieves a few posts and even then it's all about exploits...
> 
> I think I'm going to spend some more time poking around with DocMgr and
> might give MyDMS another try in a few months.
> 
> Thanks again,
> Joao
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf
> Of Mike Kercher
> Sent: 14 April 2005 00:43
> To: 'CentOS mailing list'
> Subject: RE: [CentOS] Document Management System
> 
> I use MyDMS after sifting through many different packages.  I found this one
> to be most user friendly AND powerful for our needs.
> 
> http://dms.markuswestphal.de/about.html
> 
> Mike
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf
> Of Joao Medeiros
> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 4:46 PM
> To: 'CentOS mailing list'
> Subject: [CentOS] Document Management System
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering if someone can give me some pointers to a good Document
> Management System. I've been using Knowledge Tree for a while and just
> wondering if there is something a bit more robust.
> 
> I'm archiving technical specs, functional documents, etc...
> 
> TIA,
> Joao
> 
> 
> 
> João Medeiros
> Linux User 381318
> 
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Troy Engel | Systems Engineer
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