[opencms-dev] openCMS as document management system: some questions

[Jan Moons]

Hi there,

My boss has just given me a green light on using openCMS as the basis for a document management system. Off course I can use all the help I can get :) I won't be programming myself, I am an analyst on this project, but I'm learning how to program too. On top I am sort of responsible for the technical design too. So expect some questions from me ;)

first off (and I've asked this before): are there any guidelines on how to develop a new view module? We want to use a lot of the functionality of the openCMS workplace, but show it in a different way. For instance, Folders would be dossiers, and wouldn't be shown i a tree, but in a filtered list. On the right side of the screen the documents belonging to a certain dossier would be shown. Per dossier you would also have some standard documents already available when you create a new dossier. The Users would than be able to upload their versions of these standard documents. The standard documents wouldn't really be documents then, but more like folders to hold the versions of the documents the users upload.

That's it for now.

greetz