How to use Mioga
Mioga 2 doesn't require any specific tool on the client. Any web navigator (Mozilla, Internet Explorer, ...) can be used to browse Mioga2 groupware. However, some tools can make easier the use of Mioga, like a directory management with an OS integrated WebDAV (file explorer on Windows, DAVfs for Linux). To manage uploaded documents, many software benefits from WebDAV publication capacity: Mozilla Composer, OpenOffice.org, ...
Main features
Mioga 2 provides necessary tools for collaborative work:
- Document share : each group owns several workspaces where it can put and manage documents. Access right management permits to define thinly authorized operations (read and write) according to user profiles. Publication and document access is done using a web interface or by drag & drop on the client file-manager (Web directories).
- Time management : user's organizer can create and handle different sort of tasks : planed tasks, todo tasks, planification with flexible constraints. You can delegate a task to another user and follow the task evolution. Meeting management module can synchronize each participant and used resources (meeting room, overhead projector, ...) availability to facilitate meeting organization. PDAs synchronization also manages user's timetable.
- Contact management : group address book can share all external or internal participants details. With Vcard import and export, you can directly get email signatures and dialog with PDAs.
- Communication : each workgroup can use a mailing-list with messages archives and publications tools like news and forums. To send a mail, the organization mail system is used, Mioga 2 manages itself the mailing-list.
- Search engine : all data Mioga 2 handles can be indexed and searched with the integral text document indexation. Results are returned according to user access rights. Advanced search functions can limit search extent or refine it.
User management
Mioga 2 use several sources of users :
- LDAP directory
- own internal database
- another Mioga 2 server
It authorizes, for instance, to combine internal users of an organization (LDAP directory) with external users invited on a specific project. Interconnections between several Mioga 2 servers lets a user keep his personnal data in a unique location, while participating to other organizations projects. It makes easier to externalize departmental Mioga2 server in important organizations.