So, thanks to help from this community, I got the Nuxeo VM downloaded, booted, configured, and I got logged in as Administrator. Woo! But then the real trouble comes: now what?
I've trolled through the documentation (which is excellent for administrators, mind you), and see one glaring omission: Now that I have Nuxeo, what do I do with it?
As a business user who doesn't necessarily have domain knowledge for document or digital asset management, I know what problems I'm trying to solve, but I don't know how to go about it. I'm technical enough to take on any system administration challenge I'm presented with given sufficient time, including crafting appropriate XSDs to support out-of-the-ordinary requirements we might have, but what I'm missing is an understanding of how to approach the initial problems of DM and DAM. For instance, where do I go to learn the lexicon of Nuxeo? In general, I understand what Templates and Workflow are all about. But what's a Section, and how does it relate to what I want to do (which is solve the problem of almost a million documents spread over two dozen file shares with little in the way of organization or orderly management)? For that matter, what does the term Domain mean within the context of Nuxeo? It's at best an overloaded term.
When I look into Studio, I find things like Vocabularies, a Content Model, Life Cycles, and something called a Domain Factory. All of these sound very powerful, and I see that they will probably be useful in the long term. But for today (or the next couple days), how do I get something stood up that I can show to Management that will demonstrate that this platform is something we should take seriously?
I realize that this is a non-trivial question, and the answer really gets into the realm of consulting. Most FOSS packages have this same sort of trouble, too; technically brilliant, but lacking in addressing the business perspective.
I look forward to your feedback.
Cheers.
J.D.
