Documents from QOMETask your project files questions, with the source.

That is the plan: the old folder can be set up in the same way as the QOMET directory, or you upload it — whole folder trees at once, too. When reading in, the system is designed to recognise customer, project and date by itself; the document type is confirmed by someone on your side during the first run, because it determines who will see the document later. The old costings are often the interesting part, for example when a customer wants the same railing again years later. You will see in a demo what the answers look like with your old documents.

The search goes by content, not by file name. The order number is a good key here: through the customer and project export, the system is meant to know which numbers belong to which customer and which site. That way, a question about the customer is meant to reach their orders; the answer gives the source including the number, so you can check it. Renaming is not part of the plan — the structure stays the way it has grown.

You decide that. Permissions are tied to document types and roles, not to individual files: for example drawing, bill of materials and manufacturer documents for the workshop; costing, post-calculation and contribution margin for the master craftsman level. A cut-off date is also possible, for example so that the apprentice workshop only sees documents from the current year onwards. If permission is missing, the system says so instead of giving an answer in which the figure is simply left out.

What is read is whatever is in them as text: the title block with order and drawing number, revision status, material, item numbers and the bill of materials in the corner. That way a drawing is meant to be findable by its content and not just by its file name; the answer gives file and sheet as the source. Scanned old drawings go through text recognition (OCR) when read in — how well that works with faded copies becomes clear with your actual documents. The geometry itself is not in the text: a dimension can be read where it is actually dimensioned.