Re: [Nolug] Document Management

Dane,

Your old thread helped me with a work project, so first of all: thanks!

We're looking at Knowledge Tree among a few others for document sharing and
collaboration. Did you settle on a product for your needs?

Thanks,
Jonathan

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Dane Reugger <dane@downtownpc.com> wrote:

> Just noticed that reply goes to the sender and not the list - Just
> wanted to thank everybody. Going to try Knowledge Tree next and if
> that doesn't get me there I'll go w/ SharePoint I guess.
>
> Thanks again.
> -Dane
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Mark A. Hershberger <mah@nichework.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Dane,
> >
> > KnowledgeTree is great!
> >
> > I used the Open Source version to replace a proprietary, PDF-only
> solution at my last job. KTree uses the headless mode of OpenOffice to read
> and index Word, Excel, and PDF documents. For full-text search, it uses
> Lucene.
> >
> > The people I installed it for were very pleased. Their requirements were
> similar to what you're talking about: They had several layers of
> permissions from publicly-viewable to "Top Secret" with various groups given
> different levels of access.
> >
> > The version I installed had WebDAV access, but I didn't really try that.
> >
> > There is a learning curve, but once you get the hang of how it is
> supposed to work, it does a great job.
> >
> > I installed it alongside Joomla and updated the authentication plugin I
> found that ties the two systems together. They use Joomla for their web CMS
> and KTree for the document management. (Joomla has a fairly weak DMS
> available -- DocMan -- but KTree was just so much better.)
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Mark.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dane Reugger" <dane@downtownpc.com>
> > To: nolug@nolug.org
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 1:55:14 PM
> > Subject: [Nolug] Document Management
> >
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I'm looking to setup a CMS or Document Management System. I basically
> > just need to share and collaborate files across interoffice workgroups
> > - must have flexible permissions and version tracking. Public facing
> > option would be a bonus but not needed, MS Office integration would be
> > a real bonus, and CIFS/SMB intergration would be awesome. I looked at
> > Alfresco but it's a beast. Now I'm getting ready to look at
> > Knowlegetree but I'm unclear as to what is included in the opensource
> > edition - I don't mind spending a little money but looks like CE
> > starts at $2500 annually which is out of budget.
> >
> > Anybody have a recommendation for an easy to use, inexpensive document
> > management system?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Dane
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