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Good morning you lovely scamps you! I hope you're all having a day of magic and wonder :D

I intend to set up a website which will be used by all our buildings in the UK. It'll have general stuff like supplier info so I need to be able to add tags to things, so if someone searches "screwdrivers" it'll spit out all the suppliers we have on the books. Further to that I also need to be able to upload files to which I can also add tags which people can then download again. For example an out of order sign, if someone searches "out of order" then it should give a result being the sign which is ready for download to be printed and used.

Now! The structure will be fairly simple, so a "parent directory" which will have all the general stuff like signs and suppliers, but as our buildings are all over the UK we'll probably have different suppliers for different buildings. London will have different suppliers for coffee for example to Glasgow and Dublin, so I need specific "folders" for each building.

Now each building will have its own facilities manager and they'll all need access to the same parent directory but not each others' building specific directory so it needs to have a fairly comprehensive permissions and access system.

And last but not least, it needs to be free!

Yes folks, nothing too demanding there then :D

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks <3
 
I'd go for WordPress too but pretty much any content management system will do what you want.
It's a very simple setup you need but it'll require a load of data entry to get it working.

I would do it by creating suppliers (for products like screwdrivers) and products (for on-demand products, like downloadable signs) and put them into categories based on office location. Add tags for the products each supplier has.
 
Thanks all.

As there are probably monkeys with better coding ability than myself, would a Wiki work? From an info perspective it'd be perfect but does that allow the upload and download of files? I guess I could always link to a Google Drive but that'd simply add another element and I need to make sure this is accessible by people who don't know the difference between a mouse and a keyboard.

Ta :)
 
Sounds like you need Confluence - it's basically a fancy wiki. It's web based, even though the screenshots on that page don't really show that. You can set per-user permissions, whether pages are visible anonymously (to the internet) etc. It's all cloud based so you don't need to worry about anything.

Sharepoint is probably a good call if you already have Office 365 licenses to use it
 
Thanks again.

O365 isn't an option as this is a pet project rather than a corporate thing. I'll buy a domain and have a fiddle with a few different packages and see what happens.


Thanks :)
 
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