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1/10/2006 6:03 AM
 

I've been looking for a solution for our company (a doctors surgery) internal intranet solution and think DotNetNuke might be the one. Can I just check with ya'll which modules would be appropriate for the following functions of our intranet?

Central file storage of protocols/procedures
We need to have multiple admins upload/move/delete files and everyone to be able to read them. We also need to be able to structure the storage into folders and if possible to be able to restrict access to folders according to user roles/permissions.

Ability to alert users to new uploads to the Intranet
If it's possible to have users alerted to new documents being uploaded then that would be great. We would ideally need to be able to select whether the alert was sent at the time of upload

Internal/external contacts
We need 2 global contact directories, one for internal and one for external contacts, that can be categorised, say by department or company. Both need to be searchable

Holiday calendar
We need this to be viewable by all but only editable by those with the appropriate permissions. It would be nice if we can style different types of event, say with different colours, deal easily enter and manage recurring events and if possible to have it display a day or a week at a time

Noticeboard
We'd like to have an area that any user can post a message onto, say for items they have for sale, or for announcements and such like. Much like a virtual noticeboard that is in the office

Web links
We need to be able to have a collection of web links that can be grouped by type

Access restricted by user level
Linked to Active Directory so users simply need to log into a pc open the intranet and they have the appropriate access for them

Staff In/Out board
Not essential but if there's a way to link that in to AD as above then it would be a nice additional function

So will DNN be able to do this and which modules would meet our requirements?

 
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1/10/2006 2:56 PM
 
Dubber Dan wrote

Central file storage of protocols/procedures

Ability to alert users to new uploads to the Intranet

Internal/external contacts

Holiday calendar

You can find modules on snowcovered that are quite similar to what you need: DMX for documents is a good choice, and there a couple of options for both contacts and calendars

Dubber Dan wrote

Noticeboard

Web links

The base forums module can be configured to act as a notice board.

If you need to group links you can use different modules for each category. Not sure there's any module out there that supports links categories (check on snow)

Access restricted by user level


AD integration was added in version 3.2 so it's supported by default.

Vicenç Masanas
Banyoles, Girona - Spain

Disgrafic.com    PSD to DNN
 
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1/11/2006 3:50 AM
 
I've just looked at Snowcovered and pretty much all the modules you have to pay for.  Going down that route then kinda defeats the object of using an open source CMS.  If that's the best suggestions then I think I'll pass on DNN

Dan

ps. why oh why is the forum moderated, cos it's bl**dy annoying!!!
 
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1/11/2006 3:58 AM
 

Not really,

you have the source code for the framework, and a lot of description, feel free to develop some of the modules you need and share this modules as open source projects.

And on the other hand, there are hundreds of free modules available

Look Here

regards

HP


Best regards
Hans-Peter Schelian
www.schelian.com (English)
German DotNetNuke Community
 
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1/11/2006 4:09 AM
 
Well, if I had the time and the skills I would develop some modules, but as I'm not a programmer of any sort other than designing a couple of websites that's not an option.  One reason I was keen on DNN is that it's open source as I usually find that open source solutions are better than commercial products.

If there are hundreds of free modules available then perhaps someone could point me in the direction of suitable modules for my requirements?
 
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