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knluu
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4th October 2009 (2 years ago)
Would be nice to have a document management plugin similar to Joomla Docman. We're trying to sway users to move away from Joomla, so this plugin would help in that effort.
Some Docman features;
Main features:
* Infinite categories and subcategories. The documents can be organized across custom categories and subcategories;
* Files can be hosted locally or on a remote server
* Access control: Documents can be assigned to specific user or to custom groups of users
* Download counter and log. You can display a download counter per document and all the downloads can be logged (by user, IP, browser, date and hour);
* Own search system. Documents can be searched by name and/or description. The search system integrates with Joomla! using an optional mambot;
* Anti-leech system. The built-in anti-leech system avoids direct linking to documents;
* Path protection. Real paths to documents are never displayed to users;
Would be nice to have a document management plugin similar to Joomla Docman. We're trying to sway users to move away from Joomla, so this plugin would help in that effort.
Some Docman features;
Main features:
* Infinite categories and subcategories. The documents can be organized across custom categories and subcategories;
* Files can be hosted locally or on a remote server
* Access control: Documents can be assigned to specific user or to custom groups of users
* Download counter and log. You can display a download counter per document and all the downloads can be logged (by user, IP, browser, date and hour);
* Own search system. Documents can be searched by name and/or description. The search system integrates with Joomla! using an optional mambot;
* Anti-leech system. The built-in anti-leech system avoids direct linking to documents;
* Path protection. Real paths to documents are never displayed to users;
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Keeper of the Dark Chocolate
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4th October 2009 (2 years ago)
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Gotta agree and they were supposed to be adding in more wiki like features into WordPress although their appeared to be many folks against this for wpmu. There doesn't seem to be much interest in this though:
I'd be very keen to use a document management plugin that can do all of that!
My main use (for now) is for secure document control (upload, download, even version control) between admins and editors.
For example: access to business process spreadsheets for admin use.
But down the track the option to allow users to access certain files for download is also very attractive.
I hope there are others interested enough in this to get it onto the development table.
I deal with a lot of documents (PDF, Word, etc.) and found the following hook to be useful for quick filtering of various media types within the existing WP Media Library. While this doesn't specifically get to the functionality requested, it might be helpful to some reading this thread who need to manage various document/file types in the existing gallery...
Thanks for the feedback - it certainly does seem like some additional CMS capacities to deal with various documents is more in demand now, we'll see if we can put it on the list.
Would a document management plugin also integrate seamlessly with the Member management plugin being planned too?
i.e. the member level (or role) created by the member plugin defines access to particular document downloads and areas.
Thanks for the opportunity to throw some ideas out there. You guys are a great resource.
I second this request and am more particularly interested in user-end access control. Being new to WPMU, I was actually surprised to find out that access to the media files for each particular blog is not controlled by the privacy settings of the blog itself, and even more surprised that there seems to be a general lack of interest in such functionality. It seems logical to me that if a blog is marked as 'accessible only to users registered to the blog' then its media files should be protected in the same fashion. I'm looking forward to this plugin, is there any chance to know when it might be ready?
Custom post types: general support for post types other than ‘post’, ‘page’, and ‘attachment’. This plus the custom taxonomy support we already have will go far to address those to like to claim that WordPress is not a ‘real’ CMS. We’ll be able to organize content in ways that I can’t even think of right now (I need more time to brainstorm).
I'd like to create a library of relevant resources. Is there a plugin yet for this? Is there any way to write a plugin that would incorporate Google Docs? Any thoughts much appreciated.
Has there been any movement on this? I need something like it for an upcoming web project, and integration with membership plugin like suggested above would be FANTASTIC.
It creates a page within each BuddyPress group to upload any type of file or document. Documents can be edited and deleted either by the document owner or by the group administrator. Categories can be used to organize documents. Activity is logged in the main activity stream, and is also tied to the user and group activity streams. The site administrator can set filters on file extensions, set display options, and upload files via FTP. Group members and moderators can receive email notifications at their option. There are also "Recent Uploads" and "Popular Downloads" widgets than can be used to show activity at a glance.
Responses (18)
Keeper of the Dark Chocolate — 4th October 2009 (2 years ago) #
Gotta agree and they were supposed to be adding in more wiki like features into WordPress although their appeared to be many folks against this for wpmu. There doesn't seem to be much interest in this though:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/212603
http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/web4lib/2008-December/048713.html
http://wordpress.org/tags/document-management
This is what I usually suggest when folks want to do a doc site although it's not one of the softwares we support:
http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs
There's some blog like qualities to it if you add in a few plugins.
Erstwhile founder — 4th October 2009 (2 years ago) #
Hiya,
The idea for a similar plugin was brought up last year and very few people were interested.
We're happy to look into it though if enough people are interested now.
Thanks,
Andrew
Member — 13th October 2009 (2 years ago) #
I'd be very keen to use a document management plugin that can do all of that!
My main use (for now) is for secure document control (upload, download, even version control) between admins and editors.
For example: access to business process spreadsheets for admin use.
But down the track the option to allow users to access certain files for download is also very attractive.
I hope there are others interested enough in this to get it onto the development table.
Thanks
Paul
Member — 13th October 2009 (2 years ago) #
I deal with a lot of documents (PDF, Word, etc.) and found the following hook to be useful for quick filtering of various media types within the existing WP Media Library. While this doesn't specifically get to the functionality requested, it might be helpful to some reading this thread who need to manage various document/file types in the existing gallery...
function modify_post_mime_types($post_mime_types) {
$post_mime_types['application/pdf'] = array(__('PDF'), __('Manage PDF'), _n_noop('PDF (%s)', 'PDF (%s)'));
return $post_mime_types;
}
add_filter('post_mime_types', 'modify_post_mime_types');
Pop this into your functions.php file, and it creates a "PDF (x)" link at the top of the library page and allows you to quickly filter for PDF files.
You can add additional hooks for any mime type.
FWIW...
(Oh - and I'm a +1 on the plugin requested!)
Founder & CEO — 13th October 2009 (2 years ago) #
Thanks for the feedback - it certainly does seem like some additional CMS capacities to deal with various documents is more in demand now, we'll see if we can put it on the list.
Member — 14th October 2009 (2 years ago) #
just to confirm....
Would a document management plugin also integrate seamlessly with the Member management plugin being planned too?
i.e. the member level (or role) created by the member plugin defines access to particular document downloads and areas.
Thanks for the opportunity to throw some ideas out there. You guys are a great resource.
Paul
Erstwhile founder — 14th October 2009 (2 years ago) #
The membership plugin will have download access controls built in.
Thanks,
Andrew
Member — 14th October 2009 (2 years ago) #
I would just like to say that this plugin sounds great. Please build one guys!
Erstwhile founder — 14th October 2009 (2 years ago) #
It's already in development. As you can imagine though it's not a simple plugin to build so it will take a while :)
Thanks,
Andrew
Member — 15th October 2009 (2 years ago) #
As a suggestion, you could use it to manage your ever-growing plugins list!
It'd be nice to search around there by category and tags
Member — 15th October 2009 (2 years ago) #
I second this request and am more particularly interested in user-end access control. Being new to WPMU, I was actually surprised to find out that access to the media files for each particular blog is not controlled by the privacy settings of the blog itself, and even more surprised that there seems to be a general lack of interest in such functionality. It seems logical to me that if a blog is marked as 'accessible only to users registered to the blog' then its media files should be protected in the same fashion. I'm looking forward to this plugin, is there any chance to know when it might be ready?
Member — 16th October 2009 (2 years ago) #
FWIW, just saw this bit posted on Dougal Campbell's site today, referencing new features in WP 2.9:
Member — 7th March 2010 (2 years ago) #
I think the university students would benefit from a site with such features.
I say yes but maybe it's already existing ?
Are there other plugins to make wordpress more like a cms and collaboration site that you can think of ?
Please,
- S
Member — 2nd June 2010 (1 year ago) #
I'd like to create a library of relevant resources. Is there a plugin yet for this? Is there any way to write a plugin that would incorporate Google Docs? Any thoughts much appreciated.
Cheers,
Paul
Member — 31st July 2010 (1 year ago) #
I concur! I would love to see a plugin like what others have described above!
Founder & CEO — 31st July 2010 (1 year ago) #
We're definitely looking into this - it;d be a great feature for Edublogs users too!
Member — 16th August 2010 (1 year ago) #
Has there been any movement on this? I need something like it for an upcoming web project, and integration with membership plugin like suggested above would be FANTASTIC.
Member — 16th August 2010 (1 year ago) #
For those looking for document management, check out Peter Anselmo's very, very good Group Documents Plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-documents/
It creates a page within each BuddyPress group to upload any type of file or document. Documents can be edited and deleted either by the document owner or by the group administrator. Categories can be used to organize documents. Activity is logged in the main activity stream, and is also tied to the user and group activity streams. The site administrator can set filters on file extensions, set display options, and upload files via FTP. Group members and moderators can receive email notifications at their option. There are also "Recent Uploads" and "Popular Downloads" widgets than can be used to show activity at a glance.
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