Deprecated - Media and document management

While creating Drupal websites, one of the things I wanted was editorial control over published content. It turned out in Drupal this wasn't as easy as I'd initially thought it was going to be. While the list of permissions seems vast and complicated, it nowhere near covers the type of control that I really needed.

I eventually discovered the workflow and actions modules, which are a great start. The workflow module goes a long way toward achieving this, but it doesn't quite hit the target. For one, there are no permissions involved in the workflow -- if you can edit the node, you can change the workflow state. This isn't necessarily what I wanted to see.

The nodeperm_role module was introduced to kind of alleviate that, but it turned out that wasn't quite what I wanted. Taxonomy_access turned out to be the solution, but that module is frought with peril, and I regularly find small interaction issues with it because it is so controlling of the entire site's content.

With this combination of material, I started to get somewhere, but I had to add a lot. Workflow state could only be changed while editing the document. Workflow contains no method of communication. taxonomy_access only cares about role, not ownership, and ownership matters too.

I've cobbled together something that works, and I am thinking about putting forth the effort to modularize it. It may be tricky to get right, and I definitely want community commentary before I begin any more work on it.

I know this topic has been raised once or twice before but never seemed to get much traction (as far as I could tell) but let me try it again.

As a newcomer to internet technology, I've been investigating and weighing the merits of the approaches various CMSs take to content/documents, and would like to discuss those approaches (and others) from a general design point of view, not to promote a certain CMS.

Possible formats of import/export/publish/storage:
plain text, .rtf, html, xhtml, xml (various--incl. DocBook, specialized DTDs, etc.), OpenOffice 1.1, OpenDocument (OO 2.0), .pdf, more?

Design decisions:
flat files or relational database
single or multiple storage formats, and which one(s)
format conversion technology (xslt, etc.)
web publishing techniques (as html, xhtml + css)
WYSIWIG editors: xml, xhtml, html, text (Bitflux, Kupu, TinyMCE, etc.)

Decision Criteria:
* The storage format allows the greatest flexibility in import/export/publishing to and from other formats
* Usability and ease-of-integration of editor
* Relative Storage space requirements
* Relative Performance

I see that the consensus on a few Drupal forum threads addressing this topic was to do conversions outside of the Drupal framework and to avoid doing such conversions in PHP.

My specific project requirements (they carry over to the next page):
*upload OpenDocument document files (user can upload to my site)
*user can input and edit content using WYSIWIG editor without needing to know tags or wiki syntax
*automatic import of periodically published xml data from another website that uses a very specialized DTD

Hi,

I created an image gallery with a range of sub dirs. When uploading images, drupal automatiucalle addes postfixes to the names of the image files to provent overwriting if it already exists (e.g. 1a.jg --> 1a_0.jpg). The same is true for attachments to images. However, while having a different name, the content of the attachment is still that of another attachment of another file.

I can provide access to my side if necessary to trace the bug.

This bug prevents me from using my site as intended. So its a show stopper in my eyes ;-)

i need completely customizable user profiles, that are layedout nicely, really simple actually:

just something like this:
http://x2-asian.com/view_profile.php?uid=3330&PHPSESSID=1e588a142ddcf908...

http://x2-asian.com/view_profile.php?uid=4134&PHPSESSID=1e588a142ddcf908...

Now i am adding my essays about cinema, scienc etc to my database. They are in html files now. What is the most reasonable way to this? Should i add these essays to my database with a database tool or drupal index page is enough for this.?
I added 3 essays as story by "creating content". And they are now on the front page. But the last two essays appeares only as headline. There is no trimmed content. This is a problem.