Question

I am very interested in developing a TWiki document management system for a large collection of pdf files. These files vary in size from 200kb all the way up to 5Mb and 8Mb. Most of these files exceed 1Mb.

TWiki is widely recommended for document management, and yet the TWiki documentation recommends that the size of file attachments be kept down to 200-300kb.

After repeated searching of this site, the suggestion seems to be: use an ftp site instead.

Has anyone solved this problem for effective and efficient document management for large-ish files?

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-- TWikiGuest - 11 Nov 2007

Answer

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There is no technical limit on the filesize that can be attached to TWiki. However, there's a default setting in TWikiPreferences, ATTACHFILESIZELIMIT which might have to conservative values for your needs. Especially for an intranet, there's no real need to set any limit at all, imho. Add the following to your Main.TWikiPreferences to remove the limit:

   * Set ATTACHFILESIZELIMIT = 0

There are some other aspects and tweaks to standard TWiki that you'd might be interested to solve:

• don't use viewfile to access attachments
• secure attachments using TWiki ACLs
• uploading multiple files at once
• create a twiki topic & attach files to it in one step
• categorization and tagging of attachments
• dashboard for your document store
• indexation of attachments and integration to fulltext search engine

If you need any help with some of that try contacting the WikiRing consultants.

-- MichaelDaum - 12 Nov 2007

Or any of the ConsultantsForHire.

-- PeterThoeny - 13 Nov 2007

Thanks very much Michael and Peter. I am much reassured, and I've just embarked upon the TWiki path!

-- TWikiGuest - 15 Nov 2007