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Re: It’s DOCman time!

morevisitors — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 05:34:35 -0000

I will say only one word.Excellent.
cursus timemanagement

Re: It’s DOCman time!

Garyn Finsher — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:39:39 -0000

Thanks a lot! Amazing Post!

Re: It’s DOCman time!

Johan Janssens — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:38:36 -0000

Robert, DOCman 1.5 beta has been announced. More info see : http://blog.joomlatools.eu/...

Re: It’s DOCman time!

Johan Janssens — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:05:17 -0000

I'm dissapointed to read the tone of your message. DOCman has always been a community driven project and need contributions from it's community to move forward.

Contributions can be many things. We do appreciate donations to help us keep the project going but we would like to see more people contribute to the project directly. For example by helping out on the forums, contributing code or patche setc.

The 700$ we have received in donations since May (or +/- 100$ month) are very much appreciated and just about help us cover our resource expenses. Either more donations, contributions or another stream of project income is needed for us to be able to take DOCman to a next level.

Choice is yours !

Re: It’s DOCman time!

Rick Stoffiere — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:44:22 -0000

Robert,
Have you read through this thread? It does not matter what you write, or offer to pay (I have as well), Docman is DEAD. The development crew has put out NOTHING official since the Valentine's Day release, excepting to dispute the need for a 1.5 native component. Whales will fly before we see this happen.

Re: It’s DOCman time!

Johan Janssens — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:40:21 -0000

A status update on 1.5 beta is in the works. Good progress has been made in the last 2 weeks. We regulary twit about our progress. If you want to be kept in the loop follow us on twitter (@joomlatools)

Donations are also welcome. To donate go here : http://www.joomlatools.eu/d...

Re: It’s DOCman time!

Robert Gregor — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:44:28 -0000

Please update us as to the status of the 1.5 beta. I would gladly pay a one time, multi-site licensing fee, and if you need donations, just put up a donate button, I'll click.

Re: It’s DOCman time!

Darcy — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:32:23 -0000

Any news on a release date for the J1.5 compatible version? I could certainly make use of a revamped version of DocMan - keep up the good work

Re: It’s DOCman time!

Shiny — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:27:56 -0000

when appear docman 2.0 ?

Re: It’s DOCman time!

Rick — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:39:24 -0000

1.5 Native version? Don't hold your breath! Mathias, I mean no offense to you or anyone on your team. It's just been SO long that I cannot believe it will happen. Pity, as DM is such a fantastic extension. I still use it, legacy mode and all, in every site I design. There's just no competition. Please, please, please make this happen. I would gladly pay a fee to purchase when it's done!

Re: It’s DOCman time!

Webbie — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:01:43 -0000

Docman for 1.5 native .... vaporware. It's been so long coming that I'll believe it when I see it. So far, I've heard announcements about a beta version, but so far, it's nowhere to be found.

Re: It’s DOCman time!

michael — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:07:30 -0000

great news!

I very much like the idea of getting autothumb & autopoulate in the core! We use this setup since some time on or pdf downloads (to generate thumbnails of the first page, which is the magazine cover). Just one wish: the current max for the generated thumbs is 64x64 (with some hacking i got it to the size i want) but could you add a editable size option for auto-generated thumbnails please?

Re: It’s DOCman time!

mousek — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:21:06 -0000

Hi, how about 2 Download buttons?I mean if i post a file in Docman with external download link and want to add two external links?(mirrors)

Re: It’s DOCman time!

mr t — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:42:33 -0000

Arf, this is taking like forever!!!

Where is 1.4 stable? ;-) I need it sooo bad!

Re: It’s DOCman time!

itworks — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:03:19 -0000

That's good news. I would like to see custom fields (searchable too!) Also, a rating system would be nice. Thanks for your hard work!

Re: It’s DOCman time!

andrea — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:31:50 -0000

Great news here! but when it will be possible to download the 1.4 stable release and the 1.5 beta to test it out?

...anyway: thanks guys for your great effort in this must-have component!

Re: It’s DOCman time!

Mathias Verraes — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:38:02 -0000

Hi Omar,
you can add this feature suggestion to our new user feedback page at http://ideas.joomlatools.eu...
That way people can vote for it if they like it :-)

Re: It’s DOCman time!

Omar Ramos — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:05:01 -0000

I was asked by my boss to look up an application that instructors and students could use for sharing documents and I found the following program:
https://www.filerun.com/fea...
Which I had run into a year ago when I was looking for something similar. For an unlimited user license it would cost about $1800, so that had put it out of my reach then, but now I am looking at the features and think that it incorporates a lot of the ideas/features that I've been reading about on the forums and maybe it might be an additional product JoomlaTools could use for ideas that should be incorporated into upcoming DocMAN revisions :-).

Re: It’s DOCman time!

Johan Janssens — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:11:33 -0000

@Omar, Cory. Thanks for the feedback. Great to hear you guys like the new way of doing things in 1.5.

What a lot of people don't know is that DOCman has template overrides and has had them since version 1.2. Actually a lot of the concepts I implemented for DOCman 1.2 and 1.3 eventually ended up in the Joomla! 1.5 when I architected the framework.You could say that DOCman was way ahead of it's time. It's running a bit behind now, but we are going to set that straight in version 2.0.

Re: It’s DOCman time!

corywebb — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:47:41 -0000

@ Mathias - No worries. I didn't take it as a personal attack. I completely understand what you mean, and I have used legacy extensions before. I just made a conscious decision that I only wanted to use native extensions for HTJ. I was hoping that DocMan would be native before I was ready to launch, but it didn't quite make it. Thank you for all your hard work on this and other projects.

Re: It’s DOCman time!

Omar Ramos — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:09:07 -0000

For me, the main thing I have against 1.5 legacy components is the code structure, which I believe is a valid point. The newer 1.5 native way of organizing extensions is much easier for folks that would like to modify the code or create a different feel for the presentation (e.g. template overrides).

Re: It’s DOCman time!

Mathias Verraes — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:46:25 -0000

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I don't know what all the fuzz is with using legacy extensions, especially if they're tested on J!1.5. Obviously there are advantages to native extensions, but that doesn't mean there are important disadvantages to using legacy. The performance impact is minimal (http://blog.joomlatools.eu/... ), and there are no known side effects.

Developers use 'native' as a buzz word to suggest that their extension is better than the other guy's. This helps to cultivate the idea that legacy is some dark voodoo magic that will get your pagerank down and screw up your site. In reality, 80% of the native extensions on JED perform a lot worse than any well-written J!1.0 + legacy.
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In any case, if you want to use DOCman for a site, by all means, install the legacy version and upgrade when the native version is done. I've always provided easy upgrade paths (J1.0->J1.5, 1.3->1.4, and all maintenance releases) and I plan to keep doing so for the whole 1.x series.

(@Cory I didn't mean to single you out, I've been hearing nonsense about legacy all year)

Re: It’s DOCman time!

corywebb — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:53:43 -0000

Great news! Thanks for all your hard work on this. This is far and away the best document management component for Joomla!. I just wish it were available last week for Joomla! 1.5 native, so I could use it on HowToJoomla. I had to go with RokDownloads because it is native on 1.5.

Re: It’s DOCman time!

RJ Scott — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:01:00 -0000

I'm slightly confused- I can't seem to find anything in the forums about DOCman 1.5.0 beta. Is it close to release?

Re: It’s DOCman time!

Johan Janssens — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:34:16 -0000

A release data for DOCman isn't set yet, our aim is to have it our before the end of Q1. No promises though.