Kieth On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 17:22 +0000, Keith Keller wrote:
> Hello: > > I just installed Ubuntu 11.04 a few days ago and I LOVE IT! LibreOffice is a > breath of fresh air and a GREAT step away from Larry Ellison's Oracle > universe. > > Having said this, I am also new to Linux. I'd like to submit a product > enhancement request for your LibreOffice Suite. As I am a small business > owner, the projects I and my colleagues work on have quite a few > document/artifacts that consist of Presentations, Documents and even > Spreadsheets. > > Right now, we manage these in a set of project folders, however over the > life of a project (sometimes a year or longer), we often-times end up with > quite a few of these documents. > > It would be awesome if LibreOffice provided the ability to create (for a > lack of a better term) a "Artifact Workspace" whereby users can easily store > documents, spreadsheet, presentations, etc (even Base databases), etc all > within a single workspace file and still be able to check those files in and > out of the workspace. > > Imagine having only a single workspace file that contains all the > documentation associated with a given project and have it password protected > with check in and check out functionality. > > The only other recourse for us is to get something like SharePoint or some > other doc mgmt tool to do this. > > Thanks! > > Keep up the good work! > Thank you for the suggestion, I have forwarded it (and my reply) to our design group. It sounds like a simple document management system with version control to me. I do not know of a office suite that has something like that currently. Do you need remote access to these documents, something where using a VPN would not work? I do not know if database would be something you could use. LO does include Base a database is a solution. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
