[CentOS] Document Management System

Sat Apr 16 00:01:20 UTC 2005

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 at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at 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 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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