* David Njuki [05/02/08 08:38]:
am working on a corporate intranet and drupal has proved to be very useful so far, i have been looking at the diffeent modules available but i cant seem to find one that will handle documents easily ( upload, view and share word, PDF Excel etc, on different user roles, just like [1]KnowledgeTree ) My question is, does such a module exist? and if not, is there a way to intergrate KnowledgeTree into drupal such that a user has to sign in only once?
I made some research on this myself a couple of months ago, and ended up integrating KT into Drupal. There is a module for that, (I think it is called kt) and I don't know if it has had more development since then, it worked but it was quite simple. In any case I had to register users in KT to make it work (the password wouldn't matter, but if the users didn't exist in KT the Drupal authentification wouldn't work).
I have abbandoned the idea of using KT since then, since it makes it harder to keep drupal updated. Another possibility is to use the "web file manager" module, but all users have to be trusted users since they get access to all the file system. I haven't started setting a document management system with this, but I think it may be possible if some sort of permissions for different roles can be set.
If you find a satifactory solution please share it.