# Using Discourse as a Document Repository?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-document-repository/146987
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 6, 2020, 12:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-document-repository/146987 "2020-04-06T12:29:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Discourse\_Bunker](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Discourse_Bunker)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2020, 12:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-document-repository/146987/1 "2020-04-06T12:29:16Z")
Hi,
Hope you are well.
Anyone had any success setting up a document repo on Discourse.
Let me explain I have built a static site for a client almost ready to go live and occasionally they require the sharing of files with their community. I.e Members f the forum I thought it would be a good idea to have a single repo where powerpoint files etc are available to the community what is the best way to achieve this or best practice
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2020, 12:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-document-repository/146987/2 "2020-04-06T12:33:57Z")
Discourse is not designed to be a file repository. If you occasionally need to make things available you could add the file type to the upload types and output and upload those files. You could create a category just for uploads if you wanted.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2020, 2:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-document-repository/146987/3 "2020-04-08T02:06:26Z")
We recommend using a real document / drive / file sharing service (Google Drive, Dropbox, or similar) and posting links to those documents in Discourse topics as you see fit.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2020, 2:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-document-repository/146987/4 "2020-04-08T02:21:20Z")
All of the above, plus to say that Discourse isn’t a document management system, if that’s what they’re looking for then some of the behaviors are going to be very confusing.
You can’t upload a file over an existing file of the same name, there’s no concept of versioning either.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2024, 12:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-document-repository/146987/5 "2024-05-01T12:35:39Z")
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-document-repository/146987/6 "2024-05-01T15:51:09Z")