Sorry, better features than "characteristics" ;)

El día 13 de septiembre de 2010 13:29, Manuel Jesús Recena Soto
<[email protected]> escribió:
> Hi Itamar:
>
> Do not think that these characteristics correspond to a Document
> Management System?
> I'm working on new trac plugin [1] for integrate Trac with DM (p.e. Alfresco).
>
> Regards,
>
> [1] http://clinker.klicap.es/projects/alfrescointegration
>
> 2010/8/21 Itamar O <[email protected]>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am wondering what is the recommended method to manage "complex"
>> wiki-documents, and by "complex" I mean documents that are scattered across
>> multiple wiki-articles using WikiLinks.
>>
>> I have users that are used to writing long specification & design documents
>> as Word documents, and have expressed interest in starting to work in
>> Trac-wiki instead.
>> As far as document management & versioning is concerned, I would like to
>> allow them to manage their wiki documents at-least as easily and intuitively
>> as file-based documents allow.
>> The main use-cases include:
>> - The ability to specify that a wiki-page is a part of a "document" (ideas:
>> page-hierarchy, wiki-properties?)
>> - Embedding some header / footer in all wiki-pages that "belong" to a
>> specific document with some metadata and a link to the "document root"
>> (ideas: based on solution to previous bullet, inject custom template with a
>> plugin?)
>> - Allow management of *document*-metadata (as opposed to
>> *wiki-page*-metadata) in some convenient way (metadata includes:
>> organizational-reference, business classification, version info & version
>> history, authors, reviewers).
>> - Support document-versioning that is *at-least* as good as copying
>> "myDoc-v1.doc" to "myDoc-v2.doc" and updating the metadata accordingly. I
>> write "at-least as good" because it seems that the wiki infrastructure
>> should allow much better abilities, like automating the
>> version-tagging-process, possibly supporting constraints (chain of
>> review-approve), diffs between versions, showing a "jump to" navigation bar
>> between document versions (like in the source browser), etc.
>> - When viewing a document that "was not released" show a "draft" watermark.
>> - When trying to edit a "released version" of the document, warn the user
>> and suggest branching a new version.
>> - Allow automatic generation of document-wide table-of-contents and
>> document-map (like TracGuide) (ideas: if using page-hierarchy, TOCMacro
>> might be able to do it).
>> - Support document navigation based on flow (something like "next/prev
>> page", with "up" taken care by page-hierarchy).
>> - Enable "document-export" (for printing / archiving purposes) into PDF /
>> DOC, ideally supporting custom document templates that are populated
>> according to some business-logic (e.g. metadata, list of figures, etc.)
>> - Allow cross-references between documents that are version-aware, possibly
>> allowing automated generation of "applicable documents" and "this document
>> is referenced by ...".
>>
>> The TracGuide is an example for such a document.
>> It contains a table-of-contents (not sure how it is generated),
>> and version-branches (e.g. 0.11/TracGuide)
>> (although I'm not sure whether this process is manual or automated -
>> Christian?),
>> but I listed many other use-cases that are not present in the TracGuide
>> example.
>>
>> What I would like to hear from dedicated readers who made it to this part
>> (thanks! :-) ):
>> - Ideas how to implement some of the use-cases I described based on existing
>> Trac (0.12) features.
>> - Pointers to plugins that may assist.
>> - Suggestions on how to implement by writing a new plugin.
>> - Maybe additional use-cases from users with similar needs.
>>
>> Apologies for the long post...
>> - Itamar O.
>>
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