Workflow is about getting the right work to the right people at the right time, repeatedly—and knowing you have done so. Workflow is human-centric. First and foremost, workflow is a human activity that is made by and for those who use it: workflow is something that can easily be handled and understood by human beings.
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If your life is like mine, it’s probably more complicated than it should be. There’s that full time job, social events, and vacations to say nothing of various side businesses and their associated deadlines. The kids have Cub Scouts, soccer, and baseball. Since we homeschool, we have science club, field trips and play dates. And [...]
CuteFlow is a web based open source document circulation and workflow system. Users are able to define “documents” which are send step by step to every station/user in a list.It’s an electronical way for doing (i.e. internal) document circulations. A document can be assembled from input fields of different types. The fields can be filled [...]
It has been said that the best things in life are free. While this isn’t always true, it applies in this case. If you’ve struggled with GNUplot, JPgraph or other charting applications, FusionCharts Free is a breath of fresh air. Have you dreamed of finding a charting and graphing application that is simple to install, [...]
As most company standard builds are now including Microsoft office 2007 you will start seeing more .docx documents. This has been covered time and time again but still people still ask the question.
If you wish to open up a .docx document in OpenOffice you can do this two ways:
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While desktop search engines like Beagle and Recoll can quickly find any file on your hard disk, they can’t help you organize documents and files into neat and easy-to-manage collections. That’s why we have tools like digiKam for managing your photos, BasKet Note Pads for keeping tabs on your notes, and Referencer for filing and [...]
One thing you hear often about Linux is that there’s no software for it. This is simply not true. There may not be much proprietary software for it, but there is some, and there are plenty of free alternatives to what most offices use every day.
This is just a quick overview of some of the [...]
Over the weekend a client phoned me as she was interested in the Knowledge Tree Document Management System. She runs a small business that provides document creation services for clients in the US and Canada, and needed an effective solution to manage her (electronic) documents. She also emailed this URL: http://www.knowledgetree.com/
About a year ago she [...]
Translates pdf documents into html format.Translates pdf files into HTML or XML formats, combined with png images. Supports encrypted pdf files.There is a program called pdftohtml to convert pdf to html file.In ubuntu gutsy this package in bundled with poppler-utils so we need to install this package.
Install poppler-utils in Ubuntu
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You’ve been thinking about it for a while. You’ve seen the PDF converter and sighed longingly; you’ve blushed before the skeptical glances of your open-source and anti-Microsoft friends who say “You’re still using Microsoft Office?” you’re looking at your budget and wondering why you would pay to get Microsoft Office 2007. And you’ve received Word [...]
GNOME has a menu of document templates in its file browser. It seems to have been forgotten, unless you add some templates yourself the menu will only ever display “No templates installed”.
Document templates are available in the Create Document menu, which can be accessed by right-clicking in the Nautilus file browser or opening its File [...]
his guide will walk you through installing the KnowledgeTree
Document Management System on Ubuntu 7.10 Server. This guide does not
include any pictures. I just felt with this type of install, that they
were not warranted.
Please note that this installation is performed on a base install
of Ubuntu 7.10. Since the KnowledgeTree stack installer contains its
own versions of Apache and MySQL, it will cause problems on an existing
LAMP server.
With that warning out of the way, let’s begin.
Faxes are the technology that won’t die. Having become popular in the
1970s, they persist in modern business, despite being redundant and
needlessly complicated. Increasingly, fax capacity has been transferred
online, often via office suites. In keeping with this norm,
OpenOffice.org offers everything you need to fax from within it, but
you do need to do some configuration both inside and outside
OpenOffice.org before you can use the office suite for faxing.
eGroupWare is a Web-based groupware suite. It contains many modules, including Calendar (personal calendar and group scheduling, notifications and alarms), Mail (Email (IMAP and POP3) or FeLaMiMail (IMAP only)), InfoLog (todos, notes, and phone calls linked to contacts (CRM)), Contacts (an addressbook to store and share contact information), and SiteMgr or JiNN (content management).
eGroupware requirements
Problem: one have a printer shared for networks printing and connected to a windows machine. From the other side, there is Linux-powered machine with CUPS installed and we want to print on windows shared printer.
Solution: with CUPS webform, adding printer and specifying login guest for printing without a password in a windowish printer.