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An OpenOffice based Content Management System?
bergeron76 asks: "Does anyone know of any OpenOffice based Content Management applications for Unix? I generate a tremendous amount of documents, spreadsheets, etc. and I'd like a way to organize them in a format other than a filesystem. A while back, I used a system called Docs Open. It was basically just a 'File Save [As]' dialog replacement database front-end for saving my document. I was _required_ to enter only meta-data(not the filename) about the document (keywords, description, etc) in order to save it. Conversely, it had a corresponding open-file dialog box that displayed the recent documents (DB records) and a query window for searching. It was a very nice system, and I'm wondering if anything like this exists for open-office or other popular non-Microsoft Office suites. I'm not seeking web-based systems, I'm seeking an integrated OO Plug-in or similar technology."
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The CMFOODocument Plone product (http://www.icoya.de/support/download_area/zope/CM FOODocument) has some interesting bridging functionality.
I guess that when one uploads a OO Write document to a Plone site and it is converted to HTML by this product the content is added to the site catalog so it can be located on a seach by keywords.
Yo can try it at the Plone demo site http://demo.plone.org
I haven't' tried it myself though.
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If you don't have a distribution and review process to be automated, maybe what you really want is a source code control system. You can use this to get every prior version and to tag related collections of documents and retrieve them in a single step. You'll have to teach cvs that oo's files are binary, but it should work fine.
Our windows developers are using a nice plug-in called Tortoise that patches explorer to integrate cvs with file browsing. You can update/commit, get change graphs simply by clicking on the file. Tortoise doesn't do anything that cvs doesn't do, but its a lot more easy and intuitive. We also use it for our documentation.
Of course, being able to use CVS like a file system, the way many IDEs do, would be even better. What would really rock is a plug in that stores the individual components of the OO file (content, stylesheet etc.) separately in a cvs archive. You could then get differences between different versions of a document.
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What you are asking for is a 'Document Management' system. I know, I integrate our product with lots of doc mgmt systems and Integration is my job. (We also do GIS among other things).
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Unfortunately, I don't know of any for Unix that work with OpenOffice, we only deal with Windows. FWIW, Trim Context and DataWorks are a pain
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You can tell how powerful someone is by the magnitude of the crime they can commit and be able to get away with.
You have the source code.
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Write your own CMS.
Some of us have only 24 hours per day to divide among work, family and sleep.
Mod parent flamebait/troll.
Used to be called internet file system. You can write code to it (java), or you can mount it as NFS, NetBeui, access thru FTP, etc. The framework looks interesting, you can define extended atributes, perform searches, has a pretty complete ACL system, etc. :). Might need work to integrate with front end apps.
Obviously, runs on Oracle databases only
You forgot to mention read slashdot, or is that assumed under "work"??
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
Nah, it falls under "family."
Actually I wouldn't moderate him flamebait. I wouldn't rate him high either. Keep in mind that Open Office has a built-in programming language. If the built-in PDF generator doesn't do what I want? I can (easily) install a new one. Why not write a different file-dialog that interfaces to an open-source CMS, of which there are several? It really is easy. Easy to do, and easy to distribute.
Yes, you got it,
Good job mate!
Allright.
It would be nice if there was already an implementation of what the guy is looking for. In most cases, there is, but this doesn't seem to be the case.
So pay someone to do it. Get together a group of people who want it, and pay someone to do it. Make a deal with some OO developers so they do it for you, and you pay for some support.
Free software is about freedom, not aboaut free ride.
Sleepycat also has a free source XML database, could there be some synergy there?
I realize that subversion is layered over the Berkeley to the point of hiding it from the subversion clients but still I wonder if a possibility exists to capitalize on whatever XML functionality that Berkeley DB XML has to offer. I don't know, I only am noting the coincidence.
I have been chasing a subversion/Berkeley issue and hit the sleepcat.com page. I remembered your askslashdot and decided to post this.
Perhaps the subversion people might have particular insight as to whether this would bear investigation.
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