I have read the documentation and I am still not clear on how to use indexes, smart links, and tags. Are there examples on how to define/use these constructs? I read the one about smart links regarding patient records and drugs, and that makes a lot of sense, and seems very powerful. How would this be implemented, for example? Do I need indexes to have smart links? How are smart links different from tags? Do I need indexes to have tags? How are tags different from metatdata? When do I use metadata, an index, a tag, a smart link? The manual section Concepts portray the indexes as some sort of algorithm in Python. If so, then what is the API for these algorithms?
I am using Mayan to store and catalog historical documents. I have two document types - documents (scanned pdfs) and photos. The metadata is a list of decades (1890s, 1900s, 1920s, etc.), and a second list of names (people about whom the documents are written and who are in the photos). I currently have all the documents and photos in folders based on decades. But I would like to have a more fine grained reference paradigm, especially for the photos, since Mayan can't OCR the images....;). In particular, it would be great to somehow relate the photos with the documents, and I am pretty sure the indexes, smart links, and tags will help with that. However, I just don't understand enough about how these structures work to apply them to my project. Thanks for any pointers you can give me regarding indexes (indices?), tags, and smart links. Mark -- --- 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.
