OpenDM Project Status?

[David Künzler <dk...@pxe.ch>]

Hi,

what ist the status of the OpenDM (Open Document Management) Application?

I downloaded it from sourceforge but it runs only with OFBiz 3.0.0.

Will this application go into the specialpurpose folder of OFBiz in the
future? Does someone use it and is it worth to have a look at it?

 

Thanks, David

Re: OpenDM Project Status?

[David E Jones <jo...@hotwaxmedia.com>]

While it's possible that I've heard of this before, I really don't remember it if I have.

It sounds like that project is totally independent of OFBiz, so unless someone who worked on it or has used it is active on these lists your best bet for information is the OpenDM mailing lists.

In other words, I'd recommend posting these questions there instead of here.

Either way, good luck!

-David


David Künzler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> what ist the status of the OpenDM (Open Document Management) Application?
> 
> I downloaded it from sourceforge but it runs only with OFBiz 3.0.0.
> 
> Will this application go into the specialpurpose folder of OFBiz in the
> future? Does someone use it and is it worth to have a look at it?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks, David
> 
> 

RE: OpenDM Project Status?

[David Künzler <dk...@pxe.ch>]

Hi Tim,
thanks for the information.
I finally managed to compile and run opendm and scanstation with OFBiz
3.0.0. I did not try to configure a scanner though.
As far as I see it's about initiating a scan from within and create a
Content in OFBiz.

For the moment I will initiate the scan from the scanner (because I have to
put the document on the scanner anyway).

I plan to digitalize my incoming letter communication (and assign follow up
tasks on them). The process looks more or less like this:

1. put the letter on the scanner
2. press the scan button (scan to e-mail/scan to folder function of my
scanner) 
3. a) case: scan to e-mail -> OFBiz gets an e-mail with the scanned document
attached
3 b) case: scan to folder -> a "watchdog" uploads the document (or just the
document path) to OFBiz
4. in OFBiz a communication event (Type=LETTER) and a content attached to it
(Type=DOCUMENT)is being created plus a WorkEffort (Type=TASK). The scanned
document is the content's data resource.
5. go to tasklist in OFBiz and proceed with the "incoming letter tasks"

There are many open questions concerning document management (searching,
categories, revisions, ...)

To have revisions I may change the process and put the scanned documents
into subversion and in OFBiz the data resource is going to be a URL Resource
pointing to http://svn.xy.com/myrepos/letters/20070709.pdf or
component://svnrepos/svn.xy.com/myrepos/letters/20070709.pdf. These will not
give me versioning support in OFBiz but I could add it someday (to a certain
extent) and for now I have it through direct acces of subversion. The OFBiz
content (DOCUMENT) would always point to the latest revision for now.

... and address recognition to create the communication event's parties for
the sender and recipient would be nice of course :)

-David


-----Original Message-----
From: Tim McGuire [mailto:tmcguire@go-integral.com] 
Sent: Montag, 9. Juli 2007 04:22
To: user@ofbiz.apache.org; dk@pxe.ch
Subject: RE: OpenDM Project Status?

Hi David,

I am in the process of updating this application and will post a new release
on Sourceforge soon.  The existing app is not really usable right now, but I
will notify you when I upload it.  Thanks for your interest.
Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Künzler [mailto:dk@pxe.ch] 
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 8:18 AM
> To: user@ofbiz.apache.org
> Subject: OpenDM Project Status?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> what ist the status of the OpenDM (Open Document Management) 
> Application?
> 
> I downloaded it from sourceforge but it runs only with OFBiz 3.0.0.
> 
> Will this application go into the specialpurpose folder of 
> OFBiz in the future? Does someone use it and is it worth to 
> have a look at it?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks, David
> 
> 

RE: OpenDM Project Status?

[Tim McGuire <tm...@go-integral.com>]

Hi David,

I am in the process of updating this application and will post a new release on Sourceforge soon.  The existing app is not really usable right now, but I will notify you when I upload it.  Thanks for your interest.
Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Künzler [mailto:dk@pxe.ch] 
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 8:18 AM
> To: user@ofbiz.apache.org
> Subject: OpenDM Project Status?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> what ist the status of the OpenDM (Open Document Management) 
> Application?
> 
> I downloaded it from sourceforge but it runs only with OFBiz 3.0.0.
> 
> Will this application go into the specialpurpose folder of 
> OFBiz in the future? Does someone use it and is it worth to 
> have a look at it?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks, David
> 
>