I've just started looking at using OpenKM for personal use at home, and although it does have some quirks, so far definitely seems to be the pick of the bunch in the price range that is suitable for home use!
I have a question about the use of categories - what I'll describe is working really well for me at the moment, but I haven't really loaded up a massive amount of documents yet, so I'm a little concerned that maybe performance will start to become a factor. I'll start for example with my vehicle paperwork.
So I've created a hierarchy like this in the taxonomy:
Vehicles
- Mazda
- Jeep
Then I've created this hierarchy in categories:
Vehicles
- Mazda
-- Insurance
-- Registration
-- Service
- Jeep
-- Insurance
-- Registration
-- Service
When I upload, say the insurance policy renewal for the mazda, I add it to "Vehicles" and to "Vehicles/Mazda" and to "Vehicles/Mazda/Insurance"
The effect of this is that as I click through the hierarchy, when I start at "Vehicles", I see all documents for all vehicles. Click through to "Mazda", and I see all my documents for my Mazda. Click through to "Insurance" and the list is narrowed down to insurance documents only.
This is a little more effort when adding documents, but I can live with that. But my concern is that once I start building up a library where I have 100's of documents within a category tree, am I start going to see a big performance hit?
And I guess my last question, is there a better way to achieve this effect?
I have a question about the use of categories - what I'll describe is working really well for me at the moment, but I haven't really loaded up a massive amount of documents yet, so I'm a little concerned that maybe performance will start to become a factor. I'll start for example with my vehicle paperwork.
So I've created a hierarchy like this in the taxonomy:
Vehicles
- Mazda
- Jeep
Then I've created this hierarchy in categories:
Vehicles
- Mazda
-- Insurance
-- Registration
-- Service
- Jeep
-- Insurance
-- Registration
-- Service
When I upload, say the insurance policy renewal for the mazda, I add it to "Vehicles" and to "Vehicles/Mazda" and to "Vehicles/Mazda/Insurance"
The effect of this is that as I click through the hierarchy, when I start at "Vehicles", I see all documents for all vehicles. Click through to "Mazda", and I see all my documents for my Mazda. Click through to "Insurance" and the list is narrowed down to insurance documents only.
This is a little more effort when adding documents, but I can live with that. But my concern is that once I start building up a library where I have 100's of documents within a category tree, am I start going to see a big performance hit?
And I guess my last question, is there a better way to achieve this effect?