With the increase of need on workplace flexibility and instant management of document in the modern business, the idea of mobile document management system (MDMS) has been proposed to enhance traditional document management system (DMS) and make up the deficiency of the traditional DMS. MDMS is an application to support document management at any time and place. These instant upload, fast access and easy-to-retrieve of document anywhere are highly demanded by companies. In the era of mobile devices, with the help of a little handheld mobile gadget equipping with different hardware and apps, this mobility can be easily achieved by installing a MDMS app on the mobile device.
The aim of our project is to design and develop MDMS for small companies, for easy achieve, retrieval, mobile access and workflow support with high usability and security in order to address the following problems and streamline the process of document management in small businesses:
Lack of business workflow support
Loss of mobile device
Low adoption rate of DMS in small businesses is also worthy of attention
Store various document types, including word-processing files, emails, PDFs, images and spreadsheets
Search the content of file and fast retrieval of the searching result
Track and report edits being made to documents by statistic
Backup and retrieve previous versions of edited documents for failure recovery
Represent editing history of a document by a graphical tree
Define a route that document will send to and the action needed to follow like comment and signature with a specific deadline
Allow user to trace the progress and where the document is like checking parcels in TAO BAO
Simple user interface with large document icon and button
Make use of touch-friendly features of mobile device, user can simply send and upload documents with the flick of your finger like drag and drag
Generate QR code to share document to external user instantly
Support user to capture documents by camera and classify them by tagging
Wi-Fi printing
View document with a larger font size
To fit with the size of the mobile device, instant document editing features like merging and slicing will be provided
User login
Restricting access to certain documents by permission setting
Encrypt document while uploading
Auto log out when the app is idle for too long
Limit the number of device allowed to use the system for each user, e.g. each user is only allowed to register at most 2 mobile devices
All deadlines of the document that need to handle will be shown in a calendar to fully utilize the business workflow
Have notification to remind user when the deadline approaches
Allow user to prioritize the documents and sort files by tag, name or date
Background research
Detailed project plan
Project web site
Refine system requirements
Study of open source DMS and Google Docs API
System design
Set up server, database and Cloud
Implement preliminary front end and back end with basic functions of DMS
Interim report
System prototype with basic functions and some mobile featured functions
First presentation
System and project review
Implement more mobile featured functions
Optimize user interface and system performance
System testing
Final report
Final presentation
Project exhibition and project poster