Chapter 8 Intranet Simple Document Publisher IN THIS
Chapter 8 Intranet Simple Document Publisher IN THIS CHAPTER . Developing a simple intranet document publisher . Installing the intranet document publisher . Using the intranet document publisher PUBLISHING DOCUMENTS ON THE WEB or on the intranet is a major task due to the complexity of the documents and how organizations manage their workflow. In this chapter, we ll develop a simple document publishing tool that is available to all users on the intranet and handles HTML documents only. Because most office word-processing applications these days can save files as HTML, this opens up the publisher to most organizations. Let s look at the functionality requirements that this document publishing system will meet. Identifying the Functionality Requirements The document publisher will offer each user on the intranet the following: . Web forms to create new documents: The Web form accepts both text and HTML data. However, the publisher itself does not support formatting. In other words, if a user wants to paste the contents of a Word document into the publisher form, she should save the Word document as an HTML file and copy the HTML contents instead of the text shown in Word s WYSIWYG editor. If text documents are to be submitted, a simple trick is needed to maintain formatting, which is discussed in the Adding a new document section later in this chapter. . Easy and simple category-based document organization: Each document is published in a category. There can be only a single level of categories. Each category will have a defined set of users who can view documents