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An OpenOffice based Content Management System? 29

Posted by Cliff from the opening-your-files-in-a-different-way dept.
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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  • can be found here [keysan.com]

  • Take a look at Plone+CMFOODocument (Score:5, Informative)

    by CRaMM ( 196046 ) on Wednesday June 16, 2004 @05:03PM (#9445963)
    http://plone.org [plone.org]

    The CMFOODocument Plone product (http://www.icoya.de/support/download_area/zope/CM FOODocument [icoya.de]) 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 [plone.org]

    I haven't' tried it myself though.

    -

    R

    • I use this quite a lot and it can be used with webdav too. We are actually using this for an OpenOffice.org related site at http://207.44.217.188:8080/oocommunity.
    • From the question: "I'm not seeking web-based systems, I'm seeking an integrated OO Plug-in or similar technology."

      The poster is not looking for a web content management system, they're looking for a document management system. Plone is a (great) web content management system, but it's not the right tool for this job.

  • How about CVS or Subversion? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by hey! ( 33014 ) on Wednesday June 16, 2004 @05:23PM (#9446205) Homepage Journal
    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.
    • Does anyone know of a plugin like this for the Mac? Or is that just impossible?
      • It's not impossible, but there's nothing that's anywhere near as mature as Tortoise. Here's an early version of one for Subversion [tigris.org] and here's a similar tool for CVS [sourceforge.net], also very early in its development lifecycle.

        Though it should only be of minimal concern to an end-user, the license on cvsfinder may prove questionable. It's BSD-licensed, but it apparently uses unsanity's APE sdk, whose terms in my (non-lawyer) opinion may forbid this. The unsanity guys seem decent and unlikely to pursue this, but if you're

    • Re:How about CVS or Subversion? (Score:5, Interesting)

      by AdamInParadise ( 257888 ) on Wednesday June 16, 2004 @11:29PM (#9448804) Homepage
      Now here is something amazing: OO files are just zipped archives of XML files. One could simply unzip the files, store the individual files in CVS and voila! the perfect revision management system. Well maybe not perfect, but probably much better than the Word one, especially with a better SCM than CVS and a little frontend to manages the fact that several files represent a single document.

      Now, it seems simple, but last time I looked at the OO site, I didn't found anything like this. My guess at the time was that the built-in revision system was good enough.

      Regards,
    • If you don't have a distribution and review process to be automated, maybe what you really want is a source code control system.

      Didn't sound to me like he wanted anything of the sort. I got the impression that rather than a revision control system, he wants a metadata-driven storage/database system, with a key feature being integration into OO.org. Essentially, a quick/easy alternative to saving his documents and then loading them as BLOBs into a database with suitable categorisation metadata.

      I ca

  • Document Management (Score:3, Insightful)

    by DiSKiLLeR ( 17651 ) on Wednesday June 16, 2004 @05:25PM (#9446215) Homepage Journal
    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).

    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 ;)

    D.

  • Good but not cheap...Oracle CMS SDK (AKA iFS) (Score:3, Interesting)

    by 1001011010110101 ( 305349 ) on Wednesday June 16, 2004 @05:44PM (#9446378)
    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.
    Obviously, runs on Oracle databases only :). Might need work to integrate with front end apps.
  • OO docs are XML (zipped or not) then...

    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 askslashdo

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