Monday, April 9, 2007

MOSS 2007 Gaps

The following are some of the major gaps I have discovered so far in planning large ECM projects with MOSS 2007: 1) First and foremost, the lack of email indexing and manipulation 2) The lack of built-in realistic document lifecycles that define a set of stages in a document's life. MOSS has a few basic workflows, but these must be considerably extended to implement realistic lifecycles. For instance, it is often necessary to require digital signatures at various points in a document's life - while MOSS supports signatures through Office, requiring a signature can only be done programmatically. Moreover, there is no server-side support for this. 3) A built-in commenting/annotating mechanism for documents in review 4) No virtual documents - a built-in ability to assemble several subdocuments into a single virtual document. 5) Linked documents - a way to show which documents are associated with a particular document. As time allows, I'll start to contribute ideas and workarounds for these limitations - and I welcome your contributions!

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