Ranjith I didn't realized your fork had this many updates! Some stuff like 
document type creation permission are already in the development version 
but I will browse your code and see how much can merged back.

On Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 8:22:29 AM UTC-4, ranjith pillay wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We have tried to make workflows practicable in Mayan in our forked 
> version. Please feel free to use it.
> https://gitlab.com/ammaranjith/mayan-edms
>
> Thanks,
> Ranjith
>
> On Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 4:27:33 AM UTC+5:30, Bruno CAPELETO wrote:
>>
>> Dear Roberto,
>>
>> Third night I am spending on Maya EDMS and it is so promissing ! 
>> Congratulation to you !
>>
>> In order to test it I am trying to implement the workflows of my own 
>> company, and there are several comments I would like to address (is it the 
>> right place here ?) :
>>
>> - the documentation is too short and too advanced : I have a great 
>> experience in Linux but not in python, and it was difficult for me to set 
>> it up. To enforce the awareness of your software, we should make it 
>> accessible to others than specialists in Linux, python and programming. 
>> Especially it must be available to entrepreneurs who have concrete examples 
>> to manage. By the way, I would be glad to contribute to the French 
>> translation (how can I do ?)
>>
>> - the "Actions" menu must become more convenient : for example to add a 
>> metadata after scanning, one has to view the document, go to the "metadata" 
>> tab, then "Actions" and at last add metadata. Even then, it is cumbersome 
>> if one has several metadata to fill in.
>> I suggest at least the "Actions" menu to become an option submenu when 
>> passing over with the mouse.
>>
>> - Still after scanning, there is a great function to fill the missing 
>> metadata ; again, this option is hidden. I suggest that, as soon as a 
>> document enters the system via a watch folder and is missing metadata, 
>> there is blinking icon "set metadata" inviting the user to set the 
>> metadata. The content of the metadata may even be suggested. For example a 
>> document type "Bill" can have a "Supplier" metadata. For each possible 
>> value of "Supplier" like "EDF" (a French electricity company) an associated 
>> list of keywords to detect via OCR would help to suggest the best value for 
>> a list metadata.
>> It is essential to easily assign metadata to incoming documents so that 
>> they can be classified. We still cannot rely completely on OCR :-(
>>
>> - Autoincrement variables : that would be great (and a must) to link 
>> different document together. For example I have an order (let's say number 
>> 001) and I want to be able to link all the related documents to that order. 
>> I need to set somehow this 001 to a metadata in the other documents. This 
>> kind of variables could be assigned to a document type. Or "autoincrement" 
>> could be a property of a metadata for a given document type, and a choice 
>> list for the other document types. Another possibility would be to easily 
>> see the original document's uid.
>>
>> - workflow is a good start with the possibility to give the status ; 
>> however I was not able to exploit this functionality at all (that was the 
>> subject of my recent post). At least one should be able to classify the 
>> document based on the state of the workflow via the indexes.
>>
>> - I love the "Indexes" concept
>>
>> Hope that feedback can help to improve the product.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bruno
>>
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