RubberDoc is a Document Management extensions developed for the Joomla! CMS version 1.5.

Using this extension it is very easy to upload a large number of documents ( PDF, Excell, Word, ... ) and assign them to different articles within the Joomla or present them as categories of documents or even generate RSS feeds of files.

These documents can either be made available publicly or be restricted to registere users and administrators only.

This project has been inspired by our client, Social Planning & Research Council of British Columbia (SPARC BC) , who will be using this extension on their soon to be launched website which is also developed by rmd Studio and it's associates.

RubberDoc was developed because other similar extensions were neither available for the native Joomla! 1.5 nor provided a simple and user friendly administration interface for the SPARC BC's staff. In it's first month of release, RubberDoc has been downloaded more than 1500 times.

Ajax Multiple File Upload

Using the Ajax file uploader you can quickly upload a batch of files to the server.

 Add or Edit Documents Individually

Edit document details such as Name, Alias, Published state, Description, Meta Data, and assign the document to a category. This way you are basically defnining an uploaded file as a record stored in the database.

Organize Documents in Categories

Assign your uploaded documents to different categories. This extension uses Joomla's default category manager.

Works well with the default Joomla Menu Manager

RubberDoc is developed so it works nicely with the Joomla! 1.5's native menu manager. You can create menu items to "Categories" or "Category" views.

RubberDoc Categories View

This is how the Categories view look like in the front-end.

You can track the number of downloads

RubberDoc also keeps track of the number of downloads for each document.

Configure how the documents are made available to your visitors

You can configure how to display a list of documents within a category in the front-end. For example you can choose to display or hide table columns representing Number of Downloads or Files Sizes.

Creates RSS feeds from your documents

That's right! all the document categories also create RSS feeds and they can be used for many different purposes. You can blog in files for instance and publish your monthly newsletter in pdf files. Your visitors can subscribe to your feeds using their RSS reader of choice.

Where can RubberDoc be downloaded?

You can download a copy on the Joomla! Extension Directory and for the time being we are answering questions and collecting feedbacks on the rmd Studio blog.

Credits

RubberDoc is a collaborative project done by:

• Rastin Mehr - rmd Studio, Web Application Architecture
  
• Ash Sanieyan - PeerGlobe Technolog, Web Application Architecture
• Jeannette Duguay - JenTekk Web Solutions, Documentation and Testing

Special thanks to Miss Lindsay Hindle, the Communication Coordinator at the Social Planning & Research Council of British Columbia (SPARC BC) for inspiring this project.