Open-DocumentLibrary (O-DL) is progressing rapidly.  We just released O-DL v2.0 and after 2 weeks, we have almost finalized the  next minor version (free upgrade  from v2.0). 

This new version implements DNN search integration, RSS feeds and Document Audit (aka Document Tracking).
 
Let's look at each new feature in turn:

DNN Search Integration 

DNN search integration allows users to find documents stored in Open-DocumentLibrary (O-DL) through the regular DNN search.  It is great news, but it has limitations, mainly due to the way DNN indexing works.

The limitations are:

• Only metadata is searchable (indexed content includes document name and document description)
• DNN search does not take into consideration user view rights.  So, you may get search results that you are not allowed to see.  If you click on them, the normal O-DL security process will work, and you will not be able to see the document.
• The search results, once clicked, will bring you to the page and folder where the document is. (the equivalent of clicking on a folder to see its contents).  The search results will not open the document for you.

 
RSS feeds

One of the side benefits of implementing ISearchable (the interface that allows the module to be searchable by the DNN Search engine), is the ability to syndicate the documents managed through O-DL.

You do not have to do anything special to enable this feature.  Once DNN Search Participation is enabled in O-DL settings, automatically, the documents will be available for RSS subscription.

Document Audit (aka Document Tracking)

You can now allow document tracking on any given folder and for any given role or user.  Once enabled in the Security settings of the folder, users will be able to designate a document for tracking by clicking on an icon in the document list.

Clicking on the icon, will subscrbe the user to the document, and every time there is a change, the user will be notified through email.  This implementation, will consider as document changes every time the document is re-uploaded with the same name or when a zip file is unzipped, and contains documents that will replace the folder contents where they are being unzipped.

Note: if there is a change in metadata, such as the editing of a document to change its description, then there will be no tracking mechanism triggered.  If some of you find this a requirement, we could implement it in a future minor release.