On 10/2/06, Joshua Penix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Three thoughts: 1) Yes, your idea of using something like Plone with some custom scripts and workflows would probably allow you to create what you want. There are plugins for stuff like PDF rendering, and for headers and footers you could play games with different style sheets - out of the box, Plone's "printable" view is just another stylesheet applied to the same content. But this solution is going to require some learning of the platform and likely some custom programming, you won't have your solution out of the box.
Yes, hence why its my last resort 2) How about a Wiki? It's perfect for content that is linked and
frequently edited, and you get version control wrapped right in. I'd recommend TWiki (http://twiki.org) because it is mature, and aimed at more complex document management tasks like you describe. It has a built in system for creating forms and defining workflows, and beyond that has a plug-in architecture to make easily extendable with Perl. It has a rich text editor that works in your favorite browsers, eliminating the need for Word.
Wiki! brilliant! Any python based wikis? I know perl inside out, but I just have bad memories. But if TWiki does the job like none of the others, then I'll go for it. 3) Look at KnowledgeTree, a mature and full-featured DMS (http://
www.ktdms.com/products/). It may be more than what you need, but since it's free and open source it's worth a try. The commercial editions of it have integration with MS Office, so it may be able to complement the system you already have.
I've looked at it, but I would prefer using a complete OSS solution, or at least free :) I still think the Wiki idea is the best if it can do what I described, definately checking it out. --
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