Thread: Free Document Mgmt for your Intranet with Owl

If you are looking for fast deployment of some document management solution for your intra net and that too for free, then Owl can be the best. It is especially meant for pu.blishing different types of docu ments on to the intranet. so tha t people within your organization can have fast and easy access to them. It is available in two different flavours: first is qwl Ultralight which is just for managing document which doesn't need any backend database.

Whereas in case of the second, 'Owl' gives you multi user environment. manage group. notification, customizable user interface and much more. For installation, you need to provide the database username and password along with the database name in the configuration file found in 'conf' folder. Once this is done, you need to import mysql-tables.sql into your database to create tables (use phpmyadmin for this process). Once the tables are created. access the login page by typing out following on the web browser. and after that providing username and password as admin.



Now let us see how you can you configure Owl OM solution to send notification or alert to the users, For this, login with administrator privilege, navigate to the 'Site feature' menu and then scroll to the 'Owl system e-mail setting' section. Then check lhe 'Use SMTP mailing method' option, define SMTP port as 25, define maximum attachment size, provide tbe address of SMTP server that you will be using for sending mails. Provide the sender address at 'From Address' text box and SMTP username and password for authentication. Provide a subject for the outgoing mail and also mention the reply address which will be used by users to send any feedback or comments. Once all these things are done, click on the 'Change' button provided at the bottom of the page.