Hey everybody,
I've been a Joomla! user for a few years now and have honestly enjoyed using it, but we've come to a project where we need to expand our horizons, as Joomla! just doesn't seem to have the features we need.
My client is looking to base their website off of http://hitsp.org/
HITSP looks to be pretty straight-forward as regular content pages go, but it looks like the main purpose of the site is document management - and when I say document management, I mean, "is this even possible?"
Some of the features I've noticed that HITSP offers are:
Document attachments (obviously - but the ability to create as many attachments as needed per item page)
Place those items into multiple categories
Select Related Items ("Referenced By" column - http://hitsp.org/ConstructSet_Details.aspx?&PrefixAlpha=1&PrefixNumeric=01)
Changelogs (that can keep previous versions of a document available in the front-end - http://hitsp.org/ConstructSet_Details.aspx?&PrefixAlpha=1&PrefixNumeric=01 - the different versions available)
ACL (to allow users to upload and select very specific categories to upload to)
Filter by specific custom fields (status, topic, etc.)
What we were trying to use in Joomla! is called Zoo (a CCK), if anyone is familiar with it (http://zoo.yootheme.com) but the lack of front-end submission is the main killer here.