Document management/file repository module?

Posted by bob_irving on October 20, 2009 at 8:23pm

Can anyone recommend a way to store files within a drupal site? We're looking at putting our school intranet on drupal. We don't need document management the way a huge corporation would; we're a small independent school (500 students). But we would like a place to put school forms, etc. Thanks in advance!

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Filefield and Webform

Posted by bonobo on October 20, 2009 at 10:50pm

Hello, Bob,

If you just want to support file downloads, I'd use the Filefield module. If you want to support online forms, I'd recommend using Webforms.

Both of these would be node-based solutions, so you could use taxonomy to organize the file section and views to create displays so people could search and navigate your file directory.

Cheers,

Bill

FunnyMonkey

Some suggestions

Posted by vegardjo on October 21, 2009 at 9:36am

I don't feel the document managing module yet exist for Drupal, but one way is to use filefield to attach documents to nodes, and then maybe a view showing only attachements (see for instance how the Open Atrium project does this).

or, you could maybe use this with ftp: http://drupal.org/project/filebrowser or http://drupal.org/project/webfm (quite nice but a bit rough right now, I think it's under heavy development). Also, if you google for "Drupal file manager" you will find some other projects.

and please report back if you find something, as I'm still looking for the best solution to do this myself :)

File Management modules

Posted by frank ralf on October 21, 2009 at 10:28am

There's a whole bunch of File Management modules: http://drupalmodules.com/module-finder?c=File+management&v=6.x You can use the interactive real-time Module Finder for narrowing down your search. IMCE is a highly recommended module.

hth
Frank

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IMCE, Views, and a Field-based solution

Posted by bonobo on October 21, 2009 at 3:33pm

From an end user perspective, IMCE has some advantages, but its lack of views integration is a serious drawback.

If a site will have a large number of files added over time, Filefield is easier to maintain. The Insert module (which used to be FileField Insert) is a pretty nice solution that leverages filefield -- it's particularly useful with images.

RE finding modules: Now that d.o has solr search on the modules page, finding modules is MUCH easier. You can filter by usage stats (to see what modules are used the most), Recent Activity (to see what modules have had recent development), core version (5, 6, etc), type of module, as well as full text search.

Cheers,

Bill

FunnyMonkey