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Sharepoint's lists functionality is powerful. Because I don't want all the other functionality of Sharepoint, I have been looking for an alternative (preferrable open source) without much success.
Basically I want to have a platform or web application that:
allows us to define custom datatypes (for different kinds of customer products)
has the possibility to create views or forms to present to the user for reading, creating or updating the information of the items of a given datatype
a ui to setup this configuration is not required but would be nice to have
In an ideal scenario there is an API to get the data out afterwards for further processing.
I have heard of Alfresco (but have not used it) which is a free open source content management system.
To address each of your mentioned needed features:
1. It has the ability to add custom content types via XML (http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Step-By-Step:_Creating_A_Custom_Model).
2. I didn't see a lot of support of individual views but generic views can be setup when creating your model
3. Alfresco has provided installation guides for various installation configurations. They require a login to download the guides (http://www.alfresco.com/products/docs/)
4. REST support.
List of Features from 10K view.
I would check out all of the features before validating it fits your needs. (http://www.alfresco.com/products/dm/features/)
I share your quest for an open source alternative to sharepoint list functionality. What I like/need about sharepoint is :
Can import from existing Excel files (removes alot of fear from a customer viewpoint, lots of legacy Excel files out there)
Can export to Excel format (idem on the fear thing, some customers just need their Excel fix)
Provides out of the box sorting/filtering
good pre-defined datatypes and easy to define custom datatypes
Makes it easy to define different views and display styles (customers love the preview pane)
Lists/views can be inserted easily into other webpages/wikipages
I know that jqgrid and http://datatables.net/ gives table/grid editing/sorting/filtering functionality with pre-definedable datatypes but you need to do the backend work ( they give lots of exapmles in PHP).
If I was to define what I'd love to see for internal use in our team it would be :
Content management via wiki, with semi-decent WYSIWYG as default
default table/grid/list management with all of the previously listed features
I'd say that if mediawiki/dokuwiki/phpwiki etc. could repackage with WYSIWYG and list handling then the entire planet would just love them for it.
Best regards / Colm
P.S. The only grief I'd have with Alfresco is the sledgehammer/fly metaphor insofar as it provides far more functionality than I require meaning that the overhead for getting up to speed and then maintaining the installation is prohibitive.
P.P.S I also looking at http://www.tiki.org who claim to have "spreadsheet" functionality built in (jquery based).
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I've seen many people trying to use FOSUserBundle.
I've been struggling with it for 6 hours now. Just to be able to make a custom user registration form.
The basic documentation is 6 pages long: basic.
Here are all the drawbacks of using FOSUserBundle, from my point of view:
you have to copy paste their views to make inheritance possible
they have their own table on the database: fos_user. So you have to base all your code on your user entity, which a child of BaseUser. If your database follows a convention (like wordpress does, with all tables beginning with wp_) this breaks your convention.
you have to hack all you own views with things like "if the fos_user_content block is empty i suppose there's nothing to display, otherwise i have to re-organize my whole view to display the fos_user_content block (registration, modify user profile and so on)"
and now I see that if you need two different registration forms (for example, one for client, one for partners) it's not possible unless you hack. See here.
So I'm just wondering: what is the point of using if FOSUserBundle?
If I've already done a registration process that follows the very basic things explained in Symfony help (forms, form validation, and sessions) and I just copy paste my code, this is, from my point of view, far faster than installing, configuring, inheriting, modifying and so on the FOSUserBundle.
Knowing what I've done, what are the advantages of FOSUserBundle? What could make me change and take some more hours to make it work with my project, instead of re-using my (forms, form validation, and sessions) from another project?
Well, your question sounds more like a rant, but you got some points.
In my opinion, the main problem of the FOSUserBundle as well as a lot of Bundle in the community, is that they try to make it customizable, generic, re-usable, whatever.
The goal is fair, but in reality it often leads to not human friendly code. Most of the time, you will take much more time to "get it done" using community bundle than making your own (see Sonata bundles).
I don't say they are bad bundles, not at all, but they deserve different purposes.
For me such bundles may help newcomers to have a quick implementation, to get things done, and in the case of a Rapid Application Development, it may be really easy to get a fully working application with all the registration process done.
But most of the time, you realize that using third party codes ties you too much to their own concept and that is wrong.
In comparison, I do like very much the npm community, there are A LOT of little package with one function which you can easily integrate, in the same way, I try, to favor library instead of bundle when I want to release an open source project. The point is the framework implementation is free of any concept or philosophy and easily integrate in an existing project.
I remember some early days where I had to play with Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, whatever, it was the "plugin/extension/module" fashion, in the same way that we often hear "there is a bundle for that", some people, or company just want to get it done, no matter the quality, the future of the application because it already have been sold.
To conclude, such bundles can greatly help and speed up development process, but be careful, if you have custom requirements, performance implication, etc. don't use them, however if you only want to a quick proof of concept, or a simple application, it is worth.
This is a fiction story based on my own experience and failures using it :)
I know this is an old post but as search engines keep indexing this...
FYI FOSUserBundle has been discontinued and is of no use in Symfony 4 and 5...
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I have an ASP.NET 4.0 Web Application that needs to create application forms for insurance. Basically, the program loads a PDF Template, populates the form fields, then flattens and closes the PDF. The templates are small when I create them from Word (about 156k for 5 pages) but each form field added to the template via Adobe Acrobat adds about 5-10k to the overall file size. Unfortunately, these pages have a whole lot of form fields (200+), and the end result tends to be about half a MB to a 1 MB per page.
Can anyone suggest an alternate application, usable dynamically from an ASP.NET webpage, that can do a similar job but maintain a smaller file size? It doesn't need to be a free component, but it does need to have a way for me to create a template from a word document but not use Office automation to populate the word doc and save as PDF. My preference would also be that it deal with streams and not files, but that is a minor consideration for me in the circumstances.
Take a look at ABCpdf, I'm pretty sure it can handle what you're looking for
It might be worth looking at Docmosis. You can use word documents as templates to populate and produce PDF and other outputs. Because of the way it works, the document size will not "explode" as you have indicated is a problem with a large number of fields with your current scenario. ASP.NET can invoke Docmosis in various ways depending on your application's runtime environment. Docmosis offers online web-services which have minimal footprint/requirements for an application environment as well as downloadable and embeddable options. It is commercial (I work for the company that created it) and has no Office Automation requirements.
Hope that helps.
You might try Docotic.Pdf library for this.
The library can be used to fill existing fields from code or by importing FDF files.
The library can not flatten form fields but you can make fields read-only or protect the whole document from changes with permissions.
Here are some sample that might be useful:
Fill existing form
Import FDF data
Find control by name
Permissions
Disclaimer: I work for the vendor of the library.
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I created a content type for some Quizz on my site, and now I'd like to create a basic form (only available to admins) to pull some stats on them.
The fields used for the quizz are name, start date, end date and correct answer. Each of these fields should be a searchable criteria in the form, and return a list of quizz. There should also be a relationship with the user table to display a list of those who answered the quizz.
Later I'm gonna need an option to extract the data in excel, but let's focus on the form first.
The version i'm using is Drupal6 and please take in consideration that I'm still pretty new to Drupal.
How can I do this?
I imagine you are using CCK for the 'quiz' content type?
If you are, then the best way to 'mash' this data up with getting overly complex is to use Views. You can think of views as an interactive SQL query builder.
You can create pages, blocks or even RSS feeds from the output of Views.
Module Forena seems like a valid alternative to consider. For more details about Forena, 2 types of documentation are available:
Community documentation.
Documentation that comes with Forena, which you can access right after install and enable of the module. Checkout the demo site for an online example of the current:
Forena documentation - use the link 'Reporting documentation' or visit relative link /reports/help.
Forena samples - use the link 'Reporting samples' or visit relative link /reports/samples (these samples are fully functional, so make sure to experiment a bit with it, such as the drill downs available on the SVG Graph sample).
The newest 7.x-4.x version also includes an amazing (I think) UI for either creating your reports (the WYSIWYG report editor) and/or for creating your SQL queries (the Query Builder).
Be aware: I'm a co-maintainer of Forena.
At the company I work for, we have an intranet that provides employees with access to a wide variety of documents. These documents fall into several categories and subcategories, and each of these categories have their own web page. Below is one such page (each of the links shown will link to a similar view for that category):
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/9800/dmss.jpg
We currently store each document as a file on the web server and hand-code links to these documents whenever we need to add a new document. This is tedious and error-prone, and it also means we lack any sort of security for accessing these documents. I began looking into document management systems (like KnowledgeTree and OpenKM), however, none of these systems seem to provide a categorized view like in the preview above.
My question is ... does anyone know of any Document Management System that allow for the type of flexibility we currently have with hand-coding links to our documents into various webpages (major and minor , while also providing security, ease of use, and (less important) version control? Or do you think I'd be better off developing such a system from scratch?
If you are trying to categorize the files or folders in the document management system, That's not a difficult task. You only need to access to admin panel to maintain the folders or categorize the folders
In Laserfiche, You can easily categorize your folders regarding the departments and can also be subcategorized them
You should look into Alfresco. It's extremely extensible and provides a lot of ways of accessing the repository.
Note: click the "Developers" tab for the community edition.
My question is ... does anyone know of
any Document Management System that
allow for the type of flexibility we
currently have with hand-coding links
to our documents into various webpages
(major and minor , while also
providing security, ease of use, and
(less important) version control?
Or do you think I'd be better off developing such a system from scratch?
Well there are companies that make a living selling doc management software. Anything you can get off the shelf is going to be a huge time saver, and its going to be better than anything you could reasonably develop by hand.
I've used a few systems:
Sharepoint: although I hear some people don't like it, I didn't either ;)
HyperOffice worked really well for my company of around 150 employees and has all the features you describe.
Current company uses Confluence, I like it :) But its probably one of those tools whose pricetag isn't worth it, especially if you're only using a subset of its features like doc management.
I haven't used it, but one guy I know raves about Alfresco, a free and open source doc management system. I looked at its website, seems simple enough to use.
We also faced a similar problem. However version control was more on our priority and we did look into many solutions in and around. We found Globodox extremely easy to install and use and more important the support team was absolutely fantastic
Try Mayan EDMS, it's Django based, and open source, used it as a base and build the custom features you wish on top of it.
Code location: https://gitlab.com/mayan-edms/mayan-edms
Homepage at: http://www.mayan-edms.com
The project is also available via PyPI at: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mayan-edms/
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Way back in the days when "delicious" was just "del.icio.us", I had assumed that everyone had finally caught on that Ontology is overrated.
So why am I still having to roll my own tagging system using sqlite and a bunch of ruby scripts in order to address this obvious deficiency on my own local machine? I can tag on-line web links, blog posts, questions on stackoverflow.com, and all kinds of web-centric miscellany, but this very basic concept still seems to be missing (or hideously crippled) in the few operating systems I get to use. Perhaps I am just using the wrong OSs?
From what I've seen out there, the pickins' seem pretty slim.
What do you use?
The BeOS operating system already did this in 1991, before it became fashionable on the web – in fact, the web didn't even exist then. There's several successors, reimplementations and filesystems inspired by the BeFS out there. Some operating systems that include them are magnussoft ZETA (discontinued successor to BeOS, uses the original BeFS), Haiku OS (open source clone of BeOS, formerly known as OpenBeOS, uses an open source reimplementation of BeFS, called OpenBeFS), SkyOS (proprietary commercial BeOS-inspired operating system, using a fork of OpenBeOS) and Syllable (BeOS-inspired open source OS, formerly called AtheOS, using a BeFS-inspired fileystem called AtheOS FS).
I don't know but I agree. I ended up putting together a MySQL database to handle mine. (mostly for organizing JPEG photos)
I don't use tags, I just don't have the discipline to do it all the time. I find that searching, using a desktop search tool like Copernic Desktop Search, works the best for me.
I find that if I have to enter the data, to find the files then I won't do it. It takes too much time to think of good tags and apply them. I find it much easier to just drop my stuff into a hierarchy I can remember and be done with it. The hierarchy might not be perfect, and it may take slightly longer to find stuff, but it's better than spending tons of time entering tags for every file I create.
There are some partial tagging solutions for GNOME/Nautilus that you might be interested in.
If you install python bindings for Nautilus you can then install the tracker-tags-tab extension which allows you to set tag properties on files of your choice and then have them come up in a search using Tracker.
Have a look at http://svn.gnome.org/svn/tracker/trunk/python/nautilus/ and the python-nautilus package.
Emacs Org Mode:
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http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~marriaga/software/oyepa/
ugly, but it works....also, there is find;)