There are two approaches to the topic of document administration: on the one hand, there are large commercial solutions such as Documentum (http://www.documentum.com/) and OpenText (http://www.opentext.de/), which are geared to profoundly influence the processes of an enterprise; on the other hand, there is the simple administration of downloads, which is standard fare with a CMS such as Mambo. A middle approach between these two is being offered by the DOCMan Mambo extension. It administers files and downloads, but, in addition, offers detailed rights administration, which is based on Mambo's user administration.
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DOCMan is not just a nice tool for testing and for your own website. We have already successfully installed it for a customer, who wanted a "small" extranet solution. Together with the standard Mambo user administration, we developed quite a powerful tool. All in all, the use of DOCMan seems to us very recommendable...