Documentation Systems

brainchylde · 4 Nov 2009 at 16:56

We're looking at some sort of collaboration/wiki/doc management system to effectively manage our systems & procedures documentation/calendar etc.

Looked through Alfresco (which we will use for something else) and Liferay Social Office. I'm quite impressed by the latter, Alfresco is probably a little bit of overkill for us.

Just wondering what sort of products other people use? We're looking for something cheap, but prefereably open source, and fairly simple.

droyden · 4 Nov 2009 at 17:09

I checked out http://o3spaces.com/ on a vm, integrated well with office etc. not sure about their licencing.
other than that we use mediawiki which is pretty flexible

s0ck · 4 Nov 2009 at 20:13

WSS 3 is free?

NiCkNaMe · 5 Nov 2009 at 00:34

Another vote for WSS here - quite useful once setup correctly.

brainchylde · 5 Nov 2009 at 09:27

With WSS how much work is involved? As I understood it, WSS was a tool/SDK which would allow you to build upon the Sharepoint protocol. Have I gone completely pete tong?

bigredshark · 5 Nov 2009 at 12:42

We've got WSS and the next of the company uses it fairly reluctantly but we've stuck with various wiki's, easier, quicker and better for documenting things...

#Chri5# · 5 Nov 2009 at 16:44

We have WSS going - the Wiki template works well for us.

brainchylde · 16 Nov 2009 at 18:33

Thanks for your feedback on this. I've installed and taken a look at WSS. I'm impressed.

Just been reading about the enhanced wiki and came across this:

The WSS 3.0 wiki allows RSS export of content and, when viewed in Internet Explorer, provides a WYSIWYG editor. As with MediaWiki, it produces hyperlinks with a double square bracket, and as MediaWiki (when the option is enabled) it uses HTML for markup. An enhanced wiki is available for SharePoint on Codeplex and is free to download and install. The service is limited to upload of 50MB and some special characters like &,? .. are not allowed.

Can someone explain the last sentece. Why would anyone wish to not allow uploads of >50mb and chars like & and ?

Sin_Chase · 16 Nov 2009 at 18:35

Does it even apply to you?

I am assuming you are not using Sharepoint on Codeplex?

brainchylde · 16 Nov 2009 at 18:50

I assumed it meant that, on codeplex, there was some sort of addon which you could download to sit on top of your WSS installation. Have I totally misunderstood?