Which Document Management System offers metadata customization without using IDE?

Question

I was looking closely to some opensource DMS like Alfresco and Nuxeo but found that in case of custom document metadata (or schema) you need to go through IDE.
Why after all progress done in the DMS, the end-user (not developer) isn't offered the ability to define custom properties for type of document ?

Answer 1

Actually Alfresco allows to create custom properties for document using "Aspect".
here is a good tutorial, you don't need to build by the way, just restart the server :

http://docs.alfresco.com/5.1/tasks/forms-aspect-display.html

Answer 2

With both Nuxeo and the last version of Alfresco, you can modify the schema using a web interface.

Nuxeo is definitely more advanced in this because with its web interface you can customise almost everything, but Alfresco has other advantages.

In my opinion, it is not so easy to build a web interface for end users (not developers) that has the flexibility that is necessary to implement client requirements. The problem with these interfaces is that they are perfect if they can do what you need, but become overcomplicated if you need to customise something.

Having said that, I was happy to see that finally, in the last version, Alfresco Share has a basic admin UI to define custom content models.