Our current Intranet hosts a collection of document types. (such as word, pdf, html, excel documents, etc.) There are hundreds of these docs available for over a dozen departments. We currently just have html pages with static links to these docs.
I would like to know what are some of the best practices for managing such data more efficiently, giving the following re-development requirements:
New Intranet shall have a Search feature to query all of the documents available for specified query parameters. I was thinking of storing specific data about each doc in a database and assigning it a document id. Other data would include a description, doc path, and maybe the department assigned to that doc. I would then query the db for the doc description and post results.
Is there a better practice or alternate solution that has already proven to be successful for you?
