Anyone integrated a document management system?

Post #358,505 by drook 6/6/12 1:38:30 PM Reply	Anyone integrated a document management system? Our current application is order-centric, meaning it doesn't deal with "documents" for the most part. We're working on adding some document handling for customers who need to upload attachments. The requirements quickly reached the point that we realized we're talking document management, and there are systems for this. The problem is all the ones I've looked at treat the DMS as the central tool. What we need is something that we can call from our main app. eg: I'm looking at an "Order" screen, and I want to attach a document to the order. Anyone seen a system that can do this? -- Drew
Post #358,506 by boxley 6/6/12 1:51:04 PM Reply	cgi form handling? attach a document to an order create database/blob(empty) insert upload into blob save database/blob(full) Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep
Post #358,515 by drook 6/6/12 2:03:33 PM Reply	Yeah, that's where we started Then came the questions: * What about versions? * Can users delete them? * What about categories? * Archiving? * PDF conversion? * Join/split for printing? * User permissions? * etc. etc. etc. -- Drew
Post #358,517 by folkert 6/6/12 2:12:03 PM Reply	Seriously... Look at Google Apps and using the APIs. I think you'll be amazed at its capabilities.
Post #358,529 by drook 6/6/12 5:11:25 PM Reply	Need to keep all this internal -- Drew
Post #358,614 by crazy 6/7/12 5:38:24 PM Reply	Here you go The industry has a few, this one is cheaper than some (but still not CHEAP), and will probably do what you want (do the research, it did a boatload 10 years ago, I'm sure it has gotten better/more complex). Have fun. http://docushare.xerox.com/
Post #358,616 by drook 6/7/12 5:56:45 PM Reply	That name came up, I'll look at it, thanks -- Drew
Post #358,539 by boxley 6/6/12 7:18:27 PM Reply	its a blob in a database at that point you can do whatever you want with it Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep
Post #358,540 by drook 6/6/12 7:29:43 PM Reply	Uh-huh And there are a lot of things we want to do with it, with a lot of constraints on who can do which of those things to which blobs. Which document management systems already handle. -- Drew
Post #358,510 by malraux 6/6/12 1:54:34 PM Reply	I used to write them But that was almost 2 decades ago. Not much help these days, sorry. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #358,562 by static 6/7/12 5:52:43 AM Reply	I think you're going to be writing something. Or paying someone a lot of money to integrate an OTS one with you. The same thing happens when people want to integrate a CRM with a bespoke customer support tool. The existing "CRM" functions are usually very tightly integrated with the rest of the system (typical of an organically developed system), making adding an OTS CRM quite tricky. I'm sure I'm not telling you anything new. Wade. Just Add Story http://justaddstory.wordpress.com/

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