n00b needs help

[danswan]

Morning all

I am after some advice please. A task has fallen on me at work and I need to know if it is possible and the best way to approach it.

I'll elaborate.

I work for a software company and amongst other things, my job involves designing reports for customers which are then emailed back to them. We have a folder on the server containing a few hundred of these reports which have been previously designde and what I want to do is to catalogue them in some sort of database, with a web based interface that we can use to search when we get future report requests, to prevent us repeatedly producing the same or similar reports.

What I would also like is a system where in future, when a report is sent to a customer, we can then enter some details and upload the report into the same database so it is available for future use.

I'm trying to keep this as simple as possible - I have literally no knowledge of HTML, MySQL etc which are the sort of things I think I need to know. I've started trying to learn Dreamweaver but I'm still not sure this is the right direction to go in.

I have a few months to achieve this so if I need to learn something I am happy to do so, I just really need to know what I need to learn, if you know what I mean...

Suggestions and comments please....

 

[danswan]

Thanks for the replies.

I'm not sure that is what I need - the reports we design are specific and it's not that side of things I need help with. It is the cataloguing of these files that I need. I think my use of the work 'Reports' is probably misleading, so can we think of them as just 'files' instead.

Each file has a particular purpose, what I would like is for me and around 8-10 of my colleagues to be able to open up a webpage which allow me to enter a description of the file and then to be able to upload it.

I then would like to be able to do a google style search for keywords which have been entered in the description and find files meeting my requirements.

Also, regarding resources, these are limited (although we do have a Dreamweaver license which is why I have been looking at that) so purchasing anything new is not going to happen unfortunately.

Any other ideas?

 

[danswan]

Thanks

Yes Ciphon it's exactly that, a file management system. I was hoping to put something together myself, and learn a little along the way, but if that's too complicated then maybe I'll have to rethink.

Binty I had looked into using excel but I need to be able to easily upload the file into a database and have it available for others to download when required, and this doesn't seem easily possible in excel. The files in question are really small, 10-20Kb in size on average. Also I like the idea of having a google style search via a web interface if possible.

 

[danswan]

Hi Binty - we do have a sharepoint site, I'm interested in finding out more about managing the reports via a web interface - any ideas where I can find out more about this?

As an alternative, I have just found this which looks like it might be exactly what I need...