Help to start a file manging program

[bar]

Hello community
I am trying to write a program, for easy accessing the word, excel and pdf
files.
I have a range of 200-300 folders with unique reference number (folder
name).The number may increase frequently.
Each folder contains 7 files of type of word, excel and pdf.

Now i need to create a User Interface which can open, edit , search these
files easily.
Can anybody pls guide me with some good technique and components that i can
use.

Thanks
SA

[Vladimir Stefanovic]

Post by bar
Can anybody pls guide me with some good technique and
components that i can use.

1. Should that be a client/server (network) document managing
software, or just a kind of desktop (one computer) software?

2. Are there any user rights to be assigned for accessing documents?

3. Should version control be applied to modified documents?

[bar]

hello Vladimir

Post by Vladimir Stefanovic
1. Should that be a client/server (network) document managing
software, or just a kind of desktop (one computer) software?

It is a Client/Server program.

Post by Vladimir Stefanovic
2. Are there any user rights to be assigned for accessing documents?

Yes

Post by Vladimir Stefanovic
3. Should version control be applied to modified documents?

Yes
Thanks
SA

[Vladimir Stefanovic]

Knowing the facts, it's not easy to answer.

My guess is that it's better to find some free/cheep working solution
rather than reinventing the wheel.

Even free MediaWiki software:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
...may be useful.

These days I'm working on something similar, with the difference
taht I have to use Sharepoint Portal Server for that.

Nevertheless, if the software has to be impemented because of
special requirements, I would start with this:

--- Server side ---
1. Service application + Indy sockets
(receiving requests, sending responses)
2. Windows Forms App for configuring and managing the Service app
(start/pause/continue/stop, port, logs, alerting, emailing, backup-ing,
other rules...)
3. Windows Forms App for managing user accounts and privileges
(adding/editing/deleting accounts, setting privileges)

--- Client side ---
1. Windows Forms app + Indy sockets
(sending requests, receiving responses)

The major thing woud be desinging appropriate protokol, imaginary:

User (wants to load actual docuent list):
GET username password REPOSITORY
...

Server:
folder1\file1.pdf
folder1\file2.pdf
...

Not trivial at all...