I'm with you.I could use one for the company I am working for right now. And I work with the Navy and they would really like some of that too that wasn't huge. As I say, I think people will start bring some of this stuff to market within this calendar year. Plum gives you such a good head start...
Jeff Dirk Marshall wrote:
I totally agree Jeff, Adam and David have put a lot into this already. My main reason for putting it up here is not necessarily to be added directly to Plum(that isn't really the place other than the file upload utility) but to get the idea out there so people are thinking about it. If someone were to put a Document Management module with a Project Management module and others for Licensing/Permitting, and a mapping interface to ESRI products(the list of possibilities could go on for a while) along with what Adam and David are already providing and you would have a small government solution in a box. This is a market that is largely untapped as most developers target the private business market or large government with products that usually cost too much for small governments to afford or don't provide needed functionality. There are thousands of small cities and counties that can't afford big software and maintain information in spreadsheet or text format that should be in a searchable database form. There is my soapbox for the day. :) I have lots of thoughts on these ideas but I just don't have the time to develop them. Thanks Dirk On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:15:41 -0500, Jeff Fleitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hi Dirk, You are right. I should have read more closely. A document management system is a separate app (and a big one). I was referring to a utility to upload files and/or images. A document management tool is a much bigger deal. I expect that as the product matures and more developers come into the fold that you will see many Plum based products emerge that are authored and contributed or sold by other people besides Adam and David. They aren't going to be able to cover every base. Jeff _______________________________ Dirk Marshall wrote:There are a lot of great ideas here, most impressive. I would have to agree that even though we all like free tools you do have to pay the bills so some of the ideas on how to do that are very good. I am not sure that I would agree that a document management tool would be just a utility. I am not talking about just a file upload tool, you are correct that is just a utility. What I actually meant was a module that allows upload of files into an organizational structure, controls access, allow indexing using custom fields, maintains a history of a file(who has viewed it, made changes to it, storing historical versions, etc.) use a file to start a workflow or review process,(Project Management Module?) Allow a user to create on the fly custom file groups of related documents, file retension date options(how long to store the file), among other misc features. A good document management system will run well over 5 digits and that doesn't include the hardware or recurring maintenance. I do work for a small City government and they pay thousands yearly in maintenance on a document management package. On the government side this is very important software as it allows for public access to public documents with minimal staff time after the input of the documents. This type of a application is very valuable towards saving taxpayer dollars. :) Thanks Dirk On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 07:58:06 -0500, Jeff Fleitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hey Adam, I agree with Dan that the process should be a single page with checkboxes or something instead of a separate page for each option. Actually, I would like to see an 'expert mode' implementd in 1.1 that would eliminate the wizard and just install the framework to a directory. After you have done this once or twice and know how things work, the wizard just gets in the way. I would rather just set the datasource and mappings ahead of time and generate the code. I also think you need to make some money to keep the high quality apps going. Some ideas, like PlumForums and PlumCatalog/PlumCart could be packaged and sold as standalone apps by themselves, with an installer,etc., without the Plum IDE/Generator being part of the deal. For just those folks who want a forums package, but don't want to develop with Plum. I think you should charge for that. ($20 or $30 or something). Then you could sell versions of Plum that had these apps built in so that you could include/develop them with the projects and have a license to deploy, etc. So you could buy, as an example the Plum generator with Forums for $99 instead of $79, or Plum with PlumCatalog/PlumCart for $99, or Plum 'Enterprise' that includes all of them for $129 or something like that. I know it is chump change, but it will help a little. I think something like the File manager/image uploader Dirk is talking about or a simple mail client, are really more examples of a utility and won't have much functionality outside of a Plum app. It supports an app, but really isn't an app, unlike PlumForums. You aren't going to want to install the whole Plum Framework to implement a file upload manager. These types of things you should include as part of the Plum Generator (by the way, can you call it the Plum CodeGen or Pluminator or something else a little more catchy ;)? Plum Generator just sounds 'heavy' and non-techie. 'Hey Martha, I'm on Google right now, and did you know somebody invented a machine that generates plums?' Lastly, and this is a shameless request, because I do more intranet/extranet sites than the public-facing stuff, but I think the killer app in this is an integrated report writer, especially with CFMX 7 out, and the ability to generate pdf/flashpaper/excel output. I hope you guys decide to go forward on that (otherwise I will have too ;). What would be even cooler is to make it ad hoc by using XSLT and the .plum project file (you have all the table, columns, relation stuff in there, right?) There is only one product on the market for this (HotQuery) and it is really expensive and outdated. Whew. My 2 cents. Jeff _______________________________ Jeff Fleitz Tekquest, Ltd Integrated Digital Solutions http://www.tekquest.com _______________________________ Adam Churvis wrote:So I'm sitting here thinking about V1.1, and I'm wondering about adding optional functionality to Plum right out of the box, so I wanted everyone's opinion on this idea: 1) When creating a new Plum project, one of the New Plum Project Wizard panels asks if you want to install PlumForums (just a pair of Yes/No radio buttons). 2) A second panel asks if you want to install PlumCatalog and PlumCart. 3) Additional panels ask if you want to install additional modules. First question: does this sound like a good idea? Second question: what should one or more of those "additional modules" be? I'm seriously thinking about including PlumForums, PlumCatalog/PlumCart, and these additional modules for free along with Plum, so that Plum could literally have just about everything you'd need (except custom business processes and graphics, of course) two minutes after launching the Plum IDE. What do you all think? Also, I'm going to take Sean Corfield's advice and rename Plum IDE "Plum Generator" in V1.1. 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