> I thought WEBDAV just let you save/retrieve via HTTP. Nice but not a
> document management system.
It's a really helpful component of a document managment system based on open
standards / Free Software though...
- Jeff
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I thought WEBDAV just let you save/retrieve via HTTP. Nice but not a
document management system.
Stu
On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 23:45, Jan Schmidt wrote:
>
> > OpenOffice supports webdav which is something to do with document
> > management. Google for webdav and take a look I dont know anything
>
> OpenOffice supports webdav which is something to do with document
> management. Google for webdav and take a look I dont know anything
> about it just read snippets on the OpenOffice.org mailing lists.
>
Webdav is Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning... it's about extensions
to the HTTP
On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 14:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> We use Notes for email which can easily be replaced. However, we also use
> it for document storage. Instead of word processing in something like word
> or Openoffice we use Notes. It is a little primitive but has all the
> features you
On 27 Aug, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> could then convert most of our desktops to Linux only. At present I run
> VMware on one workstation as an experiment just to give him Notes and one
> DOS application (DBASE) that doesn't (or at least wouldn't when I last
> tried it) seem to want to run
At Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:43:11 +1100, steven wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions about how I might provide the central
> document storage, searching and summaries provided by Notes? Then I might
> be on the way to being Microsoft free.
store them on a shared drive (samba/nfs/whatever). the
Bruce Badger wrote:
> If the documents you are talking about are just text, and need to be
> shared and editable with a revision history, you could look at using a
> wiki.
Twiki is also apparently good.
I'd look at doing something like web seaarch engine (htdig) plus
samba.Integration of
Jeff
Thanks for the suggestion. However, that replaces windows at the sever end
but not the desktop.
While I find that Notes does fulfill a lot of our needs it is still
proprietary and licences aren't cheap. I guess you use windows based
native Notes clients. If I could get a suitable client
Hi Steven
I've been thinking about this and Open Office/J2EE backend.
It sounds like a pretty good fit for your requirements.
For starters, it sounds like Open Office will give your users many more
opportunities re: formatting than notes currently does.
The reason it's of interest as a Docume
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>...
>Does anyone have any suggestions about how I might provide the central
>document storage, searching and summaries provided by Notes? Then I might
>be on the way to being Microsoft free.
>
If the documents you are talking about are just text, and need to be
shared
Over the years I have been gradually reducing our reliance on Windows. Our
main ERP application runs on the Progress RDBMS under Linux. Really the
only thing left now is Lotus notes. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like
there will be a linux client in the short term. They have now discontinued
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> We have a little over a thousand 1 or 2 page documents stored in native
> notes format. They are things like product specifications, recipies, etc.
> These are available to staff internally using native notes access. Notes
> serves these up to the w
> 3) I suspect in the long run it is going to be easier and more efficient to
> store all the text in a RDBMS than as text files
I'm in the process of building a document management system as you've
described above, but just wanted to give you an inconsequential, but perhaps
knowledge-encouragi
I am sure this is going to end up a long email so I will apologise in
advance.
I am looking for some advice as to what direction to take in a project I am
considering at work. We currently use Lotus Notes for email and document
storage. (This is my fault, a decision made 6 or 7 years ago before
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