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Questions tagged [document-management]

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Standard API Protocol for ECM Systems?

I am wondering if there is an established standard or protocol when working with APIs for document management systems or ECMs. For example, let's say I'm working on a new product and I want it to have support for both FileNet and Documentum. Is…
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Privilege (Access/Permission) Control for Hierarchial Structured Resource

Question: Is there any standard model or industry defacto implementation for modeling and implementing Access Control in (i.e.) a Document Management System? Note: I studied a bit the security mechanism of Windows (which I do not want to use), and I…
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Storing documents in DMS

I need your opinions and suggestions about storing documents in a DMS system. I think the DMS should save its own copies of the documents, not their original path on the disk. So, the DMS should have its own space to write on. But what about the way…
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(Installable) File System Driver, Shell Extension Handler or another approach?

I have an application that does some document handling as part of its functionality. I would like to implement a "Drive" emulator that would allow users to navigate and manage documents as if they were on a local drive. In my mind, this would be…
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How to automatically manage documentation

Our project consists of a cluster of microservices (let's say 20, mainly JS & PHP) that are communicating among themselves and exchanging data (via MQ) among themselves. Also, clusters have API available to other teams. So microservices process…
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How can I create a combined UX and Functional Spec?

Our organization has been clamoring for a more organized spec-making process. At the moment, we use a combination of UX Specs (created in a wireframing tool and published as PDFs), and Functional Specs (created in a writing tool, either a client…
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Best format for design document?

I have an open-source project which requires me to create mathematical models to compute some things. I have to analyze some data to decide which model works well and determine the range of errors produced by the model. I want to document this…
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What things needs to be taken care of while writing Development Policy for Project?

I've been assigned to create a development policy for our project which is a test case management web application using Spring MVC and Java. For instance, I think I would have to create the coding guidelines to be followed by the new joinees in the…
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Small scale document management system architecture / patterns

Im usually working with line of business desktop software. Mostly based on a single database. Pretty often one of the requirements is to keep track of some files. Or the only way to implement a certain feature is to save actual files somewhere on…
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