Re: [Nolug] Document Management

Sadly no - that was a year ago and still want to do something but -
Alfresco is to complicated and neither KT or Alfresco have Office integration.

Are you thinking paid version of KT?

-Dane

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Jonathan Roberts <gremln007@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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