ive seen a few historic threads around this area but wondered what the latest thoughts are.
we wish to build an umbraco-based website for a repository of project documents. these documents will be revised throughout the lifetime of the project, so the ability to update the document file and also see the revision history of the document will be important.
Honestly I think there are other systems out there that will server you better for this than Umbraco. I guess we are talking here about Word, Excel, PDF, etc. documents that need to be version controlled? And the version control should come from the system (Umbraco or other) and not make use of the versioning that is build into these docs? It's for sure not impossible, but I'm afraid you'd have to build the whole versioning/tracking yourself to my knowledge. E.g. when a user uploads a new version of a document create a new media item (with a new version number), make the current one history and point to the new document as latest.
umbraco as a document management system
ive seen a few historic threads around this area but wondered what the latest thoughts are.
we wish to build an umbraco-based website for a repository of project documents. these documents will be revised throughout the lifetime of the project, so the ability to update the document file and also see the revision history of the document will be important.
are there best practice approachs for doing this?
thanks
Honestly I think there are other systems out there that will server you better for this than Umbraco. I guess we are talking here about Word, Excel, PDF, etc. documents that need to be version controlled? And the version control should come from the system (Umbraco or other) and not make use of the versioning that is build into these docs? It's for sure not impossible, but I'm afraid you'd have to build the whole versioning/tracking yourself to my knowledge. E.g. when a user uploads a new version of a document create a new media item (with a new version number), make the current one history and point to the new document as latest.
Happy for someone to contradict me though. ;)
Hi Andrew,
Get in touch with the guys from Axendo http://www.axendo.nl/ they have a product called Umedial which is basically a Document database based on Umbraco. More info and a link to the powerpoint can be found on http://www.axendo.nl/nieuws/axendo-presenteert-nieuw-product-umedial (Dutch).
Cheers,
Richard
thanks for the info!
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