Document management using Plone4

Question

I'm interested in making a document management system from Plone 4.

I need pointers to a way to integrate FlexPaper and a way for asynchroneous document transformation using existing tools like SWFTools, Ghostscript, ImageMagick, Batik etc..

Thank you for any pointers you can give me.

Answer 1

Plone 4 is an excellent choice. We've been using it as a document management system internally and for a number of high profile clients. The main selling points are:

• Blobs are stored on the filesystem (not in the database);
• OpenOffice, MS Office, PDF documents are indexed and their content searchable;
• Fine grained ACLs;
• Workflows.

Regarding your points:

• http://plone.org/products/wc.pageturner for Flexpaper integration (we found that simply embedding the pdf, using Acrobat's plugin, worked fine too);
• Wiki style content editing is supported natively (via Wicked);
• Data lists can be implemented with a custom content-type, using DataGridField( http://plone.org/products/datagridfield ).

Other advantages:

• PloneFormGen, now with AJAX quick-edit ( http://plone.org/products/ploneformgen )
• Plomino, for TTW "Domino" style app creation ( http://www.plomino.net )
• WebDAV and XML-RPC;
• Content rules;
• User subscription to content and email notifications (see http://plone.org/products/cmfnotification );
• Can be installed as multi-headed, fully redundant system using ZEO and RelStorage (ZODB encapsulation in a RDBMS datastore backend, like MySQL, Postgres or Oracle),