Metadata Question

jamieh

Hi All,

This is prob very basic to most of you guys but I don't know where to start...

I'm doing a college project at the moment. I'm trying to build a basic document management system.

At the moment all the documents are scanned into a folder on the c drive. Within that folder there are subdirectories such as Invoices, Quotes, Purchase Orders, etc. I'm using IIS Directory Browsing and an ASP File Browser to access the folders and files - which are displayed within the web browser.

The next thing I have to do is setup a small database\xml file with metadata, ie. name of document, type of document, date, owner, etc etc. I need to setup search functionality so that a user can type a keyword into a text box and then metadata is then searched.

My programming skills are basic...so what's the easiest way to do this? Or is there any handy open source tools out there?

Seth Brundle

http://www.aspin.com/func/content-search?id=5375710&qry=file+search
http://authors.aspalliance.com/brettb/FileAndFolderCheckers.asp
http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?lngWId=4&txtCodeId=7477

more @ http://www.aspin.com/func/search?pg=2&order=desc&qry=file+search&cat=all

jamieh

Hey,

Thanks for the reply - their great links.

Now I need to add metadata about the documents into an xml file. Is there any code out there for that?

Seth Brundle

DIY?
Search aspin.com for something on that. There probably won't be something working directly between both the filesystem and XML (I haven't checked) but to make an XML doc should be there - you will then just need to loop through your file details and append them to your XML file.