Real Time Collaboration and Web 2.0 tools, tips, and reviews

Hi Diane,

I was interested to see that you're (if I've understood)using Joomla for document collaboration - a good collab component for joomla is something I've been looking for. Ideally writeboard style. Is this the sort of thing you use?

Thanks

Hi David -

I use the Remository plugin for Joomla to manage documents. It is a little dodgy, but works well enough for my purposes.

I just set up a folder for each client and add the client to a group. Then I set the folder to only be accessed by one of the group members.

One thing I would really like to see in Joomla is the ability to apply group permissions to each page and menu item. Right now, I believe, all you can do is switch between registered and nonregistered users.

I'd like to be able to say - this group can see this menu item, this menu item and these pages.

Diane,

Thanks for your reply - it looks like you an I (and a million or so others) are all looking for the same kind of simple collaboration tools that something like writeboard offers as a component/plugin for the otherwise first class Joomla.

There is a hack to allow admins to extend the core set of users called JACL (or Jacl Plus). It does a good job, but it is a hack and you do need to know what you're up to...