MyDMS

Welcome to the new home of MyDMS, hosted courtesy of SourceForge. The MyDMS project on SourceForge is a continuation of the work started by Markus Westphal (original site). For those not familiar with MyDMS, it is a web-based document management system, an application to store and organise all manner of electronic files. MyDMS includes support for version control, document meta-data, hierarchical folders, user management and access control.

For more information regarding MyDMS, please refer to the about page.

There are a couple of issues still outstanding with the installation of WordPress onto the SourceForge servers. Specifically, the registration process relies upon email to send out the initial password to newly signed up users, but SF does not allow outbound email from its servers. This means that new registrations will not receive their password. I will fix this soon so that users can register with the site (but it probably means displaying the initial password on-screen during the registration process).
Until this is fixed, the site is closed to new registrations.

Secondly, the Akismet anti-spam plugin is not accepting my WordPress API key, so in order to protect the site from comment spam, comments have been disabled for now. I’ll also be looking into alternatives in order to get the site operational as soon as possible.

A new beta has been released in preparation for 1.5.0, featuring dramatically improved search performance and faster page load times. This is a stable beta and we encourage users to try it out.

MyDMS 1.5.0b was in fact released on the 17th of May and has been available for download from SF.net. The release of 1.5.0b pre-dates the existence of this site, however, so it is being retrospecitvely announced here. Right. Done that.

[Release Notes] [Change Log]

There’s a small bug in the database creation / update code for the 1.5.0b release. An extra index is being created on the tblDocumentContent table that should not be there. It is simple to fix and should not affect the running of MyDMS, but it will cause warning messages to appear, at least in MySQL. The solution is simply to delete the index.

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