EVPO Document Circulation

EVPO Document Circulation is a workflow management web application. It can be used to store files, in particular documents, with metadata information in a central location in the internet or intranet. The main purpose of the application is to help manage workflow associated with those files between a group of users.

EVPO Document Circulation is open source and free application based on .NET framework using MySql database.

Features

• Easy to setup.
• Automatic email notifications (SMTP account is required).
• Delegation: users can delegate to other users (deputies).
• Forms (documents) are stored in a tree of folders similar to a file system.
• Forms can have links to other forms.
• All events are logged. Forms have history. The user can also view history of their events.
• Users can communicate on forms: add comments, request details before responding.
• Flexible filter to list and view forms.
• Role based security where security objects are folders and form types. Flexible system of permissions with these familiar verbs:
  • Create
  • Read
  • Read Own
  • Write
  • Write Own
  • Delete
  • Delete Own
  • Browse
• Microsoft Active Directory integration
• All text in the user interface is stored in resource files (resx) and can be customised and localised (recompilation required).
• Languages:
  • English
  • Russian

What Is Missing?

EVPO Document Circulation is a basic workflow management system and it does not have many features that other systems have:

• Versioning: when a file or metadata is modified or removed, the previous version is lost forever. Regular file and database backups can help to some extent.
• Full text search: the user cannot search the content of files. Only metadata fields are searchable.
• Fields cannot be changed or added to a form.
• Forms can move along a predefined route up and down but cannot be assinged to an arbitrary user.
• Good Documentation.

Downloads

The source and installers on Codeplex: http://evpodc.codeplex.com

Known Issues

Issue tracker on Codeplex: http://evpodc.codeplex.com

To Developers

Project structure can be found here

If you want to build the project, MySql Connector .NET is needed.

About Author

Evgeny Pokhilko's blog on Wordpress http://evpo.wordpress.com

Other projects:

• http://evpomembers.codeplex.com - a web based contact database. The database stores information about individual members with their contact details, general information and how they are connected to each other.
• http://github.com/evpo/ConvexHull - an original Convex Hull algorithm and implementation.

Contacts

You can add a comment to this blog post for help: http://evpo.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/evpodc-getting-started-part1/

Suggestions, help, issues and contributions: evpomail@gmail.com

License

License: GNU General Public License v2

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.