* Giovanni Toffoli: " [Mayan EDMS: 1001] Creating metadata for documents without file" (Wed, 18 Feb 2015 10:50:42 -0800 (PST)):
> as mentioned in a previous post, I'm trying to use Mayan-EDMS to catalog
> "open educational resources" (OER); not only those in the managed
> repository, but also many others, mostly available on the web. Users should
> be able to create sets of metadata about documents without uploading an
> associated file.
> In the Setup-Sources section of Mayan-EDMS, I don't find such a no-file
> source type. What would be the cleanest way of making the file optional for
> a "document"?
> Should I find a work-around, possibly upload a simple text file containing
> a reference to the document, a "link" when the source is on the web?
> Thanks in advance for any suggestion!
When linking to documents in the net, your source is volatile, i.e. subject to
disappear. Furthermore you won't be able to do a full text search for words in
the document content. Therefore I would recommend you to import all documents
into Mayan.
--
Mathias Behrle
PGP/GnuPG key availabable from any keyserver, ID: 0x8405BBF6
--
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Mayan EDMS" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
pgpqFAk9QDOfx.pgp
Description: Digitale Signatur von OpenPGP
