[support] Drupal as a simple document management system

[Stephen Karsch]

As much as I love Drupal, you may want to look into Alfresco for this functionality.  Drupal -> Alfresco integration does exist if you need it (http://drupal.org/project/cmis).


On Aug 19, 2011, at 12:20 AM, Mohan Radhakrishnan wrote:

> Hi,
>           I am trying to evaluate some document management solutions
> based on these requirements. The problem is that many of these tools
> are full-fledged ECM solutions. I think Drupal is one of them.
> 
> Is there a way to use Drupal as a simple document management system
> based on these requirements ? I will try Drupal if that is what is
> recommended but any opinions or comments will also help.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mohan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Requirements :
> 
> We have a systems that receives and generates files and reports with
> financial data. These files could reside in the disk or they could be
> generated by the system. In the case of files in the disk we need to
> specify archival policies that the tool will use to move the files to
> its repository. We want to archive the reports generated on-the-fly by
> the system by invoking the webservice API of the tool.
> 
> 
> 
> We want to associate custom and standard annotations and metadata with
> these documents using the tools’ thick or think client or the
> WebService API. We also want to retrive and search these documents
> using the thick or think client or the WebService API.
> Document history is also required.
> 
> 
> 
> We want to view these documents in the browser. Some of these
> documents could be encrypted on the disk and they have to be decrypted
> before viewing. Volume labels should be associated with these document
> repositories so that the clients or the API know how to retrieve them
> and also support multi-tenancy.
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