The issue of storing large amounts of data in the zodb, particulary large binary files has been a concern, with the addition of blob to the zodb would this become a non-issue? Should someone with Nynke's use case be even thinking about storing his documents directly in the ZODB?
On Jan 22, 2008 11:18 AM, Peter Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With TextIndexNG3 you get a very good index on that kind of content and > if you make the documents available as objects in Zope, TextIndexNG3 can > take care of opening up things like .doc and .pdf and index its content. > > However, if you make the documents objects by proxy of sorts (i.e. > metadata such as filename in Zope and binary payload on filesystem) I > don't know what happens if the file is updated externally without Zope > being notified to reindex it. > > I'd say that what it depends on is how important it is (how up-to-date) > and if you've got an existing way of linking to the documents on the > drive from the intranet. > > My company has started looking at writing a custom indexing of our code > and documents in Sphinx (very fast and competant indexing server) but > unfortunately we never had time to complete it. > > Peter > > > Nynke Kruiderink wrote: > > Hello Shilpa and all, > > > > We are about to release our new intranet in plone 2.5 and I'm looking > > forward to it. > > > > Our employees tend to travel a lot, therefore communication between > > employees is also a challenge for us. We are hoping that with the > > implementation of team knowledge sharing blogs, and organizational news > > items and rss feeds, that we will improve the overall communication and > > learning within our organisation. We will also be providing wiki pages > so > > that staff can easily co-create the intranet and/or collaborate online > in > > content creation related to their work. > > > > What I have not worked out in detail is the document management side of > the > > story. We have a network drive, which is just a wonderful example of > chaos > > most of the time. It's great, and it has its worth, only what we need is > a > > single platform where we can find all final versions of documents, and a > > single platform where we can conduct a single search for information. > > Therefore I'd like the intranet to become our document management system > for > > final documents. > > > > Any suggestions as to what products add-ons I should be testing for this > > purpose? > > > > Thanks a lot for your help! > > > > Nynke > > > > -- > Peter Bengtsson, > work www.fry-it.com > home www.peterbe.com > hobby www.issuetrackerproduct.com > > _______________________________________________ > NGO mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/ngo >
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