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Last Post 04/23/2009 12:10 AM by Peter Donker. 3 Replies.
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Jens Lemmer
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04/20/2009 1:38 PM

I hope this forum are is the correct one to post in, if not please kindly move my thread where it fits better:

We are currently re-developing our intranet on a DNN basis and considering using DMX as the document management solution within that. Therefore I would like to ask if someone of you can provide information and experiences on how far DMX can be integrated with other modules and if there are good examples/case studies/tutorials specifically for using DMX within an intranet platform.

Some more concrete questions:

  • Is it possible to list the documents a user uploaded/tracks/bookmarks/etc in his user profile?
  • Can we do similar selection on a department page?
  • Is it possible to have an activity/update journal like on Facebook, where all current changes to our intranet including changes/uploads/etc in DMX are displayed?
  • As there are multilanguage versions of documents possible, does this integrate with DNN language selector (so if someone switches from English to German, the corresponding German version of the document is displayed)?
  • Could be even use the multilanguage feature for articles (like Text/HTML) as there currently is no solution for multilanguage content in DNN available?

Thanks for you help!

Peter Donker
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04/20/2009 2:50 PM

Hi Jens,

This is the correct forum, yes. I'll try to answer your questions:

  • Is it possible to list the documents a user uploaded/tracks/bookmarks/etc in his user profile?
    It all depends on the details of your implementation. Like how you want to hook into the profile page etc. DMX does offer some methods through the DAL, but IMO your request will probably lead to sculpting some SQL to draw out the info you need in the way you want. Mostly these type of requests lead to making a separate module that does what you want based on the DMX data model.
  • Can we do similar selection on a department page?
    See above
  • Is it possible to have an activity/update journal like on Facebook, where all current changes to our intranet including changes/uploads/etc in DMX are displayed?
    There is an RSS feed coming out of the DMX which can be tuned to a large extent. Check this out to see if it fits your needs.
  • As there are multilanguage versions of documents possible, does this integrate with DNN language selector (so if someone switches from English to German, the corresponding German version of the document is displayed)?
    A document is a self contained item and does not have multiple language versions in intself. But the title and remarks of folders and documents are localizable.
  • Could be even use the multilanguage feature for articles (like Text/HTML) as there currently is no solution for multilanguage content in DNN available?
    I'm not sure what you mean, but see above. Categories are also multilingual.

Peter

Jens Lemmer
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04/21/2009 5:01 AM

Hi Peter,

thank you for your answer. Regarding your response, please let me ask the following:

your request will probably lead to sculpting some SQL to draw out the info you need in the way you want. Mostly these type of requests lead to making a separate module that does what you want based on the DMX data model.

I guess our request is a popular feature people request, so do you know if there are any additional modules or implementations available which we could re-use (maybe from other users)?

There is an RSS feed coming out of the DMX which can be tuned to a large extent. Check this out to see if it fits your needs.

Do you think it will then be possible to merge that RSS feed with other RSS feeds or data we would retrieve from some modules sql tables do have an integrated update feed/journal and furthermore these items can be linked to the corresponding page (e.g. an item from the DMX RSS feed will link to that document, an item from some other update stream will link to that items page etc)?

Thank you!

 

Posted By Peter Donker on 04/20/2009 14:50:22

Hi Jens,

This is the correct forum, yes. I'll try to answer your questions:

  • Is it possible to list the documents a user uploaded/tracks/bookmarks/etc in his user profile?
    It all depends on the details of your implementation. Like how you want to hook into the profile page etc. DMX does offer some methods through the DAL, but IMO your request will probably lead to sculpting some SQL to draw out the info you need in the way you want. Mostly these type of requests lead to making a separate module that does what you want based on the DMX data model.
  • Can we do similar selection on a department page?
    See above
  • Is it possible to have an activity/update journal like on Facebook, where all current changes to our intranet including changes/uploads/etc in DMX are displayed?
    There is an RSS feed coming out of the DMX which can be tuned to a large extent. Check this out to see if it fits your needs.
  • As there are multilanguage versions of documents possible, does this integrate with DNN language selector (so if someone switches from English to German, the corresponding German version of the document is displayed)?
    A document is a self contained item and does not have multiple language versions in intself. But the title and remarks of folders and documents are localizable.
  • Could be even use the multilanguage feature for articles (like Text/HTML) as there currently is no solution for multilanguage content in DNN available?
    I'm not sure what you mean, but see above. Categories are also multilingual.

Peter

 

Peter Donker
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04/23/2009 12:10 AM
Hi Jens,

I will keep it in mind for a generic solution. The challenge is to make it highly configurable as I expect users will expect very different things from this. Data analysis is very specific to people.

About the RSS feed: yes, you could merge it with other feeds. It conforms to the RSS 2 standard and you could use the DNN NewsFeeds module to merge it with something else. Note that the DMX RSS feed also sends out document metadata that you could use in an XML module to output very specific lists of recent changes in DMX.

Peter
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