document management

Technical Editor
Institute for American Thought
IU School of Liberal Arts
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

From my experience,there are a few major things lacking in Drupal. One of them that I have encountered a lot is the ability - or inability to manage files/documents effectively. I'd like to start laying the groundwork for a comprehensive file (or at least document) manager that allows some of the more popular feature requests e.g check in/check out, protected files & directories etc.

OFFRE DE STAGE - DEVELOPPEUR - BALLET PRELJOCAJ

Sorry, I just can't post more.

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

After reading Hariska2@drupal.org's comment about creating a rudimentary DMS module, I was thinking about wanting just such a thing. (It is part of the reason for establishing this group.)

However, much of the functionality already exists. I want to make sure that if I aid in the creation of a new module for document management that that module doesn't totally overlap existing functionality to much. However, there are some pretty significant improvements that I think could be made. I will commence with suggesting the things that already exist and then consider what is missing.

Now that the group is out of moderation I feel comfortable announcing this group. Drupal is not and does not provide a document management system (DMS). However, by creatively assembling a few modules it is possible to provide a limited amount of functionality. I've created this group to discuss strategies for managing documents in Drupal.