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To help organize and find uploaded photos and documents it would be nice to be able to create and name folders within the pictures and documents sections.

Thank you for an already great product.

Thanks for your input. This is indeed one of the enhancements we are considering for our Content management system.

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

This ties in somewhat with a wish list item I wanted to propose with regards to dochandler or document uploading.

I am looking at various scenarious for document management that integrates with the password-protection feature of WA.

My wish would be to add the "membership level" property to documents as they are being uploaded (and this proposed sub-folder feature might help with that too!). This would allow me to control access not only to web pages on the site, but inserted documents too. Preferably you could give access to one or multiple membership levels. This function would allow me to have a pretty great rudimentary document management system without having to install/implement/maintain an inhouse digital library server (like Greenstone for example), as we don't currently have any staff/infrastructure to support that.

Right now, although I may insert a document (or an index list of documents) to a "Members-only" page, if I create a link to the dochandler URL for the same document in a public page, the document can still be opened by a non-member if they have access to the link ID. This is because the ID of documents is not attached specifically to a page on which it is inserted.

If there was access control on specific documents in WA then, in practice, I would simply create an invisible "index" page where I would insert all my member-specific documents. Then I would use the dochandler URL assigned by WA to create links elsewhere on my site.

For example, I want to have article abstracts available to non-members, but then have a link to the members-only full PDF or full-text content. If a non-member clicked this link, they should theoretically see a message that tells them "Only authorized members have access to this page".

Searchability of my "index" page and documents would then be handled by simply adding a customizable 3rd party search engine with password access to the member-specific page.

I'm not sure how this would be done on your end, as I'm sure this depends how your dochandler is integrated with your contact management feature and WA webpage storage.

Cheers,

Melanie

Canadian Paralegal Institute

Thanks, appreciate the detailed description.

By the way, I suspect search will be a much bigger hurdle as we would need to build a special API for that. (I might be mistaken)

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

Hi Dmitry,

I was reviewing one of the articles on your techblog - a post about search engines from Alder Consulting.

 In their review of Spiderline, for example, the review says it supports "login to a secure site" but I guess that depends on whether WA is using a standard authentication protocol on your side (?)

I guess I should add that to the API wish list then? You were asking people about specific APIs they might want :)

Thanks,

Melanie

yes, if you could a link to their site (ideally where they describe their connection mechanism) to API page, it would be very helpful. (there is no single standard authentication protocol)

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

Hi Dmitry

They really don't seem to provide any technical specifications around this on their website (I will try to contact them). I'm not a current customer of theirs, so I'm sure they have more technical documentation available to billed users.

Here is some info on their product promo pages that might be worth perusing initially, and I'll see what I can find out:

http://www.spiderline.com/features/

http://www.spiderline.com/customers/

 

OK, thank you.

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot