Bibles
There is one thing that has been on our teams “future” or “background” task list for quite some time, “Bible” creation. The ability to pull together documents, emails, PDFs, maybe even pages of documents into one final “Bible”.
Today I find the genesis to a solution on the Workshare blog.
Workshare PDF Enhancements
This looks excellent, ability to add different types of documents, entire folders of documents and even individual pages of a document. Clear the meta data and add PDF security. Access to the DMS. All this needs now is the ability to generate a hyper linked index page (maybe that could be template based for branding) and that’d be a perfect solution!
Now pity we can’t get our custom 5.2 SR1 package to install and uninstall properly, but that’s another story…..
May 18th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Hmm, could this be a cost-saver licence wise for all those users who have to have Adobe Acrobat for PDF manipulation?
I had a look at our Beta install of SR2 and couldn’t figure out where this functionality lies.
Am I a Beta version behind?
Am interested to hear your story behind SR1 not installing/uninstalling, would you be able to elaborate?
May 18th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
I’m not sure about the beta, from what I could gleen from the information from Workshare this was for a future beta of SR2 rather than the current one. If someone from Workshare reads this maybe they could comment?
On the SR1 problems, the install is to do with the INI file and how this is used to create the XML config files. We saw that this wasn’t been applied. Although we’re not too worried as we are considering installing an XML file direct and turning off the config manager which fires on every boot up (to aid bootup performance)
On the uninstall, we’ve built a custom install based on the guidlines documented by Workshare. So I think this issues is specific to what we’ve done. It basically means we can’t uninstall the package once installed, will post more information on what is going wrong once we’ve got it resolved.
May 19th, 2009 at 5:39 am
This new feature is available in the current SR2 Beta III build which was released a couple of weeks ago.
The added functionality will be available in SR2 due for public release in June.
May 23rd, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Hi, nice posts there
thank’s for the interesting information