The Database File Manager (dbFM) has been developed by
eServGlobal to maintain documentation within a formal Intranet site.
The
file manager allows users to upload their files into a hierarchical directory structure - actually storing the files as compressed blobs in the mySQL database.
It offers the following:
- Storage of all documents within the database (Files
are stored as blobs).
- Drag and drop move of files and directories
- Attachment of files held in dbFM to nodes
(re-ordering of attachments using drag and drop)
- Integration with a rich text editor (Tiny for v5, FCK
for v6)
- Linking of files to nodes
- Embedding of images into nodes
- Single file upload
- Hover-over file properties and image preview
- On-line help system
- File delete/rename/view/move/download/acls
- Access control based on Roles and (optional) Organic
Groups
- File revision management
- Simple File-Searching
- Advanced file search (requires dbfmsearch) indexes file contents into
drupal's own search engine.
- File subscriptions - be notified when your files are
modified, deleted etc.
- Directory Locking - directories may be locked -
but only by users with that priviledge (generally only the admin user). Once locked a directory cannot be moved, deleted or
renamed - even by the directory owner.
- Home Directories - users can automatically be given home
directories (dependant on their role).
Note that dbFM no longer supports replication.