Document management using Plone4

Question

I'm interested in making a document management system from Plone 4.

I need pointers to a way to integrate FlexPaper and a way for asynchroneous document transformation using existing tools like SWFTools, Ghostscript, ImageMagick, Batik etc..

Thank you for any pointers you can give me.

you might be better off splitting your three requirements into three different questions — djay, May 08 '11 at 11:03
Thank you, but will I be creating duplicate entries? Can I just edit this question now and simply just leave one of these requirements? edit: decided that this is exactly what I'll do. — Bojan Markovic, May 08 '11 at 18:21

Rigel Di Scala · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-08T19:02:20.607

8

Plone 4 is an excellent choice. We've been using it as a document management system internally and for a number of high profile clients. The main selling points are:

Blobs are stored on the filesystem (not in the database);
OpenOffice, MS Office, PDF documents are indexed and their content searchable;
Fine grained ACLs;
Workflows.

Regarding your points:

http://plone.org/products/wc.pageturner for Flexpaper integration (we found that simply embedding the pdf, using Acrobat's plugin, worked fine too);
Wiki style content editing is supported natively (via Wicked);
Data lists can be implemented with a custom content-type, using DataGridField( http://plone.org/products/datagridfield ).

Other advantages:

PloneFormGen, now with AJAX quick-edit ( http://plone.org/products/ploneformgen )
Plomino, for TTW "Domino" style app creation ( http://www.plomino.net )
WebDAV and XML-RPC;
Content rules;
User subscription to content and email notifications (see http://plone.org/products/cmfnotification );
Can be installed as multi-headed, fully redundant system using ZEO and RelStorage (ZODB encapsulation in a RDBMS datastore backend, like MySQL, Postgres or Oracle),

edited May 08 '11 at 19:02

answered May 08 '11 at 18:35

Rigel Di Scala

3,150
2
17
23

1

Great information and very detailed answer! @Bojan Markovic, if you found this information OK, you should mark the answer as correct. – marcosfromero May 09 '11 at 00:16
Oh ok, I just figured out how to actually do that. edit: I am also very impressed with how helpful, quick and dedicated the community is here. – Bojan Markovic May 09 '11 at 13:41
Thanks. I raise a Sarajevska Pivo in your honor ;) – Rigel Di Scala May 09 '11 at 14:06
at the risk of going further off topic I'll say cheers and would gladly trade that beer with a glass of some lombardian Pinot Grigio being a vino bianco person myself ;) – Bojan Markovic May 09 '11 at 20:27

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 09 '11 at 16:04

2

Plone has a built in document transformation system called plone.transforms http://pypi.python.org/pypi/plone.transforms.

There are plugins that use plone.transforms or just events to transform content, synchronously and asynchronously. For example take a look at http://plone.org/products/collective.pdfpeek

answered May 09 '11 at 16:04

djay

1,058
5
12

Thank you for this answer. Very useful information regarding the part of my question about document transfotmation. – Bojan Markovic May 11 '11 at 14:26

Document management using Plone4

2 Answers2