Before you start

I'm looking at the possibility of using Drupal for a company Intranet (please note - Google is no good to me). I have some knowledge of Drupal already, but I am somewhat concerned about the search capabilities. Here is what I need to be able to do:

• The site is basically a DMS intended to allow about 1-2000 users easy online access to 14,000 documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF, possibly moving to OpenOffice support later), rising to 50,000 documents in the next year or two. Can Drupal handle this from the performance viewpoint?
• Each document is accompanied by a substantial amount of metadata. At the moment, it looks to me like I would have to configure the metadata in Flexinode or CCK
• The documents will be classified and users able to search by category, or by search
• It must be possible to search via metadata fields or by fulltext search in the document file itself
• I want to be able to export a complete "tree" of data (eg select a category and exportall the documents (metadata and document file) to an offline web page(s)

So here are my questions:

• Can Drupal handle the volumes from the performance viewpoint?
• Can the search engine or a module search the metadata (ie does it support searching on particular CCK fields)?
• Can the search engine or a module do fulltext search on the document files themselves?

OI OI

how can I emulate blogger with drupal? I mean... like every user has it's own little blog, accessible with something like nameuser.drupal.org or drupal.org/nameuser ?

hi all. I got the white screen of death after installing the image module.
When I checked the server log, it says:

 PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /modules/image/image.module on line 24

does anyone know what this means?
thanks.

I have a client who want to create a site like the this one http://www.naturelle.ie/

Does drupal able to create this kind of site ?
If the answer is yes, what additional modules should be used ?

Dear friend!

I am trying to used drupal on my website and now I really stucked out with module and blog install. Can you kindly help me how to install some module such as:

Random picture
Reference ( I want to put the logos to links direct to the website but I cant)
Random quotes
Shout box
Story

Could you please help me that?

Thank you

khmerboy

Hello,

I wonder if drupal can be customized to become something like a Discogs.com clone

here's an example page http://www.discogs.com/artist/Madonna

Thanks in advance,

A.