My choice : no DMS in Drupal but Drupal connected to a nice open source DMS solution : Maarch
Maarch is a small but growing French company based in Nanterre ( near Paris ).
They are very interested in the project of interfacing drupal and Maarch (via web services) and are willing to invest in this project.
Secure Document Management solution - the filedepot module
The filedepot module is a feature rich application for managing and sharing files securely across your organization or user community. The module is easy to install as it only requires the base CCK and filefield modules. The filedepot module has been developed to provide the user with an easy to use functions to search, download, edit and add documents. The user interface has been developed with design cues from Google Docs and makes extensive use of modern web application technologies to behave like a desktop application.
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So has anyone set up a DMS with Drupal + Solr ?
Now that [edit Solr ] apachesolr has moved on considerably, I was wondering if anyone has used it's full text indexing of documents combined with the taxonomy, and access control of drupal as part of a DMS.
I tried this a year ago, couldnt get it working and ended up with a Knowledge Tree/Drupal integrated solution, which seems good at the time, but in use was too disparate. I want it in Drupal (!), not another system.
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current docs status and an rfc
I've made two alfa releases of the module, more on the way. The module is still in alfa for three main reasons:
- would love more feedback
- more features need to be implemented
- there are known bugs affecting installation edge cases
Currently implemented features
- Directories - implemented based on taxonomy
docs.module in cvs
I uploaded a simple file/document management module. I consider it a pre-beta quality, so you won't get it through the project interface, just cvs. It targets D5 at the moment, but is trivial to port to D6.
There are quite a few more things I want to add to it. Some of them are probably going to end as extension modules.
Why just another module doing something like file management?
- no dependencies outside core
- upload.module might be a hack, but it supports revisions and other goodies
- taxonomy is a good analogy for folders
Google Summer of Code
I see that the Summer of Code slots have been set. 20 of them are drupal related and of those
Unified File Management http://code.google.com/soc/drupal/appinfo.html?csaid=FA475F12A343C364
Private versus Public File Management for Drupal http://code.google.com/soc/drupal/appinfo.html?csaid=31A32F81A3DD031
and perhaps
Taxonomy Manager http://code.google.com/soc/drupal/appinfo.html?csaid=5374D02AB6384CDF
may have application here.
