The previous document management system at ERDF crashed while I was in the middle of my project to develop a new document management system. I will give feedback on how I managed to fully customize our Nuxeo instance with Nuxeo Studio and build a document management solution for 200 users at ERDF.

1. Implementing Nuxeo DM with Studio only
on a 200 people IT project - Feedback
Julien ALEXANDRE
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2. 1 - The context
SGE
PRESTATIONS
Fournisseurs
Fournisseurs
PUBLICATIONS
des catalogues et autres
demandes
RTE
- Éléments contractuels
Ex :
- Mise en service
- Raccordement
- Réclamations
- Etc.
CARD
- Éléments de
consommation et courbes
de charges
Producteurs
RE
- Éléments de facturation
- Etc.
Distributeur
New
version
every 6
months
200
people
/
120
users
10+
teams
working
togethe
r
20+
kind of
docs
e.g.
more
than 70
general
spec.
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3. 2 - Initial situation
 Predecessor (Alfresco) had crashed
 Bad user experience
 Only using shared disk
 Sending docs via email
 Confusion between multiple versions
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4. 3 - The choice
Why Nuxeo ?
 First impression is really good nice UI
 Very easy to use
 Good technical support (Nuxeo Answers)
 … and it’s french !
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5. 4 - Customization

I only used
I will show you :
 The basic modifications (metadata, advanced search, etc.)
 The advanced modifications
 The
modifications  the problems I encountered
 Issues and improvements
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6. 4a. Basic modifications
 Meta-data
 Advanced Search
 Templates
 Workflow
Lecture « BasicModifications.avi »
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7. 4b. Advanced modifications
 Remove useless Tabs
 Remove Personal Workspace
 Add a « Send Email » button in docs
Lecture « AdvancedModifications.avi »
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8. 4c.
modifications
 Force meta-datas
 Personalize Faceted Search
Lecture « MakeMeCrazyModifications.avi »
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9. 5 - Issues
 Many misunderstanding with version number ( 1.0+ )
above all with drag’n drop and publication
 Many issues with « Back » button
 Widget with hard coded name
 Did not manage to remove the « Filter » field
Lecture « Issues.avi »
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10. 6 - Improvements
 A collaborative spreadsheet would be very useful
 We need to see reading statistics of docs
 We need an easier way to change the state of docs
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11. 6b - Minor improvements
 Info messages need to be more noticeable (center of the screen)
 Be able to import a folder with drag’n drop
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12. Thank you!
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