mayan-edms 4.0b3

Free Open Source Electronic Document Management System

Mayan EDMS is a document management system. Its main purpose is to store, introspect, and categorize files, with a strong emphasis on preserving the contextual and business information of documents. It can also OCR, preview, label, sign, send, and receive thoses files. Other features of interest are its workflow system, role based access control, and REST API.

The easiest way to use Mayan EDMS is by using the official Docker image. Make sure Docker is properly installed and working before attempting to install Mayan EDMS.

For the complete set of installation instructions visit the Mayan EDMS documentation at: https://docs.mayan-edms.com/parts/installation.html

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Hardware requirements

• 2 Gigabytes of RAM (1 Gigabyte if OCR is turned off).

• Multiple core CPU (64 bit, faster than 1 GHz recommended).

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4.0 (2021-02-XX)

• Add document version page list reset.

• Add document version page delete.

• Add document version hash from content object.

• Improve file and version page max page calculation.

• Add version page navigation.

• Support document file deletion.

• Move document download code to document file.

• Add document file permissions.

• Move page count update to document file.

• Several renames for consistency. Use the major, minor, verb order for variable names in more places.

• Point document to latest document version. This removes the document page views and makes them aliases of the document version pages views.

• Add document version deletion.

• Add document file properties view.

• Remove page disabling/enabling.

• Add document version page model.

• Add caches, settings and handlers for the document version cache.

• Add document version page image API.

• Rename DocumentPage model to DocumentFilePage.

• Invert the document and OCR migrations dependency. Makes the OCR migration dependent on the documents app migration. This allows disabling the OCR app.

• New event ignore and keep attribute options

• No results template for file list view.

• Fixed version page append

• Convert document model save method to use event decorator.

• Update file hooks to work when there is not previous file.

• Remove all remaining orientation support. Remove rotation test files.

• Add multi document version delete.

• Add a generic multi item delete view.

• Longer document file action texts.

• Document stub recalculation by file save and delete

• Better document version page remap

• Reorganize and split document model tests

• Add file upload mixin method.

• Unify the action dropdown instances into a new partial called appearance/partials/actions_dropdown.html.

• Move the related menu from the “Actions” to the facet area.

• Add sources to their own menu.

• Add mode argument to SharedUploadedFile.

• Split document app model tests into separate modules.

• Split document app test mixins into separate modules.

• Fix the appearance of the automatically generated view titles.

• Add a new “Return” menu for secondary object views.

• Use the “Return” menu for the document version, document version page, document file, and document file page views.

• Remove the “File…” reference to the document file form fields as these are now obvious.

• Add more return links. From document version to version list, from document file to document file list, from document version page to document, from document file page to document.

• Add document version edit view. Allows editing the document version comment.

• Improve the return links with the chevron as the uniform secondary icon.

• Rename the document view, document version view and document file views to document preview, document file preview and document version preview.

• Enable more cabinets, checkouts, document comments, metadata, linking, mailer, mirroring, web links apps.

• Allow using staging folders for new document file uploads.

• Add conditional source link highlighting.

• Add document version create view and permission.

• Add validation and test for repeated document version page numbers.

• Improve page remap code and add annotated content object list support.

• Don’t display the file upload link on the document file delete view.

• Update shared upload file to allow storing the original filename.

• Upload the new document file upload code path to conserve the original filename.

• Rename DeletedDocument to TrashedDocument, same with the corresponding trashed fields and manager methods.

• Add document file download event.

• Rename all instances of icon_class to icon as only icon instances are used now in every app.

• Add icons to the mark notification as seen and mark all notification as seen links.

• Switch both view to mark notification as read to use the POST request via a confirmation view.

• Return the event type subscription list sorted by namespace label and event type label.

• Make the search fields more uniform and add missing ones.

• Add full label for search parent fields.

• Add events for the document type quick label model.

• Add dedicated API endpoints for the document type quick label model.

• Update the file cache partition purge view to be a generic view that can be called using the content type of an object. Adds a new file cache partition purge permission.

• Added ContentTypeTestCaseMixin.

• Include EventTestCaseMixin as part of the base test case mixin.

• Rename usage of “recent document” to the more explicit “recently accessed document”. This was done at the mode, view and API level. The recently accessed document API will now require the document view permission.

• Rename the document model date_added field to datetime_created to better reflect the purpose of the field.

• Add a RecentlyCreatedDocument proxy and associate the recent document columns to it.

• Move the recently created document query calculation to its own model manager.

• Add the recently created document API.

• Add favorite documents API.

• Rename the misc_models.py module to duplicated_document_models.py.

• Split the document_api_views.py modules into document_api_views.py and trashed_document_api_views.py.

• Add date time field to the favorite documents models to ensure deterministic ordering when deleting the oldest favorites.

• Rename the setting DOCUMENTS_RECENT_ACCESS_COUNT to DOCUMENTS_RECENTLY_ACCESSED_COUNT, and DOCUMENTS_RECENT_ADDED_COUNT to DOCUMENTS_RECENTLY_CREATED_COUNT. Config file migrations and migration tests were added. Environment and supervisor settings need to be manually updated.

• Docker Compose updates:

  • Use profiles for extra containers.

  • Converted to use extensions to remove duplicated markup.

  • A new container was added to mount an index.

  • Added support for Traefik.

  • Added sample .env file.

  • Update required Docker Compose to version 1.28.

• Add a third document filename generator that used an UUID plus the original filename of the uploaded file. This generator has the advantage of producing unique filename while also preserving the original filename for reference.

• Add support for the “Reply To” field for sending documents via email and for the mailing workflow actions. Closes GitLab issue #864. Thanks to Kevin Pawsey (@kevinpawsey) for the request.

• Allow customization of the error condition when generating document images. This allows displaying more icons in addition to the generic document image error with additional contextual information and popup messages explaining the actual error condition.