On Friday 09 December 2005 10:50 am, EP wrote: > I've been looking for a good way to handle our company's documentation. > I've looked at and used mediawiki, plone, and mambo/joomla but nothing > seems to do what I think it needs to do. > > This is what I need: > 1. We sell our own software so we need to be able to publish user manuals. > 2. We need to document our own company procedures, policies, etc. > 3. We need revision control so if someone wipes out a document we know what > we need to fix. > 4. We need version control so we know what version of our document our > clients or employees are using (Pointing everyone at the web may mitigate > this need). > 5. We need access control. Obviously everyone should not have access to > everything. > 6. Easy enough to create/edit/delete/view a document so that our > non-technical users and employees can handle it. > > These are additional features that should be available: > 1. Use Word or OpenOffice and import the documents into the document tool > 2. Should be able to get a PDF version of the same document on the fly > (i.e. I don't want to store two copies of each document) > 3. Client access portal so we know who's accessing our documents > > This seems reasonable to me so maybe I'm looking in the wrong places or > maybe I'm too picky. You might want to look at another Zope based CMS called Silva. I haven't used it myself but its been around almost as long as Plone. It was designed from the ground up to use XML for storage and provide the ability to publish the XML documents to multiple formats. I believe they have support for HTML, Word and PDF at this time. You can find the details at: http://www.infrae.com/products/silva -- Jack Ungerleider The Ungerleider Group jack at jacku.com http://www.jacku.com