[Typo3] The right extension for listing office documents?

Pierre pierre at web-lance.com
Fri Feb 25 13:19:40 CET 2005


Diederik van Veen a écrit :
> what would be the right extension for listing office documents, like 
> .doc, .xsl and .pdf files. And have additional info visible, such as 
> author, content, ect..). What would be perfect if users could just 
> upload a file to a directory and the file is immediatedly listed and 
> categorised, without the need to add extra info thru the BE. I'd like to 
> implement tis as a (searcheable) structure for our scientic works.
> 
> What in your exerience and what do you think is the right extension to use?
> 
> I've found these ones in the TER:
> 
> - Document Directorys: but that still seems a bit 'beta' if one might 
> say that. And it requires the use and login of the BE, which is not very 
> convenient for our FE users. And apart from that it doesn't seem that 
> vwware is properly supported by a windows server. Pro is it can read 
> META info.
> 
> - General Office Displayer: Which works fine, but it requires that 
> saving of the document in a XML format. And does not support pdf.
> 
> - Documents Suite: Provides a frontend plugin for displaying office 
> documents (haven't tried this one)
> 
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Hi,

i use here the document directories and all works fine, but yes i have a 
be user only to use the be module of danp directories
cheers
pierre



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