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
On 4/13/05, Joao Medeiros joao.c.medeiros@gmail.com wrote:
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...
I have always thought that for the back end of such a system CVS or subversion works fine. That said something like that clearly requires a web frontend also. Searching freshmeat.net will likely yield results.
Cheers...james
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@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@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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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@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@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@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@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
_______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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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@localhost identified by 'bar';", then logging in as foo@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@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@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@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@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
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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I knew there was a reason why I chose CentOS instead of so many other distros and an even greater one because of this and other replies I got to my thread... It's good to be here :-)
Thanks Troy, It's the first time I got a double-gzipped tarball no wonder I couldn't get it to work. ~sigh~
I couldn't stop looking elsewhere from all the suggestions I got and found a nice Project Management solution which also has a document management system. It's called DotProject (http://www.dotproject.net) and for what I've seen so far looks great.
Worth giving it a shot if you're looking for something to help you run your projects.
Thanks again folks, Joao
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Troy Engel Sent: 15 April 2005 17:34 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Document Management System
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@localhost identified by 'bar';", then logging in as foo@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@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@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@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@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 Fluid, Inc | http://www.fluid.com _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 4/15/05, Troy Engel tengel@fluid.com wrote:
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
Just my $.02, any product that requires register globals on is a complete POS and not worthy of my time.
Joao Medeiros wrote:
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
I really like DocMGR
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