atw: Re: Acrobat for generating KM system?

Elizabeth,
I'll add a second vote for iGrafx. We used it at one of the big banks as the basis for a online process library. Looked at visio too and iGrafx won out because of its abilities for linking between flowcharts, and linking flowcharts to other documents and objects. Also spits everything out to HTML to allow users to view online.
Other features if spending big on server-side include the nifty ability to add task estimates to boxes and then run modelling across them to see how long/how much to get from A to B.
As for Sharepoint, cannot comment from that implementation. But since crossing swords with Sharepoint afterwards I'm pretty sure it would be possible to make Sharepoint work with it, even if not so easy to make it work with Sharepoint. 

Steve



On [6 Dec], at [6 Dec] 3:28 PM, Elizabeth Fullerton wrote:


Hi all
We are developing a business methodology, and want to develop some kind of electronic storage for it, including as some high-level requirements:
Graphical process flows where we can click on an activity to drill down to lower levels, and also access further information about the activity, including "attributes" such as mandatory/optional, and links to case studies and templates Storage of case studies and templates and other accessories to the methodology Portability, so a consultant can whack the latest version onto their laptop and take to a client site (preferably with accessory files)
We have a (long) list of other things, but those three are probably the basic most important
Just looking at tools to hand, we've had a bit of a play with Visio, which is actually quite cool when you save it to a web page - all clickable and links, and we can also put attributes on elements.
Problem with Visio is that it's not very text-friendly, and it's a bit clunky - though perfectly usable with some good planning. Someone suggested that Acrobat 8 may be a good tool to convert different formats to a common format, I know that the earlier versions you could do quite a bit with - I assume that you can now do more! Also, to create a cohesive system, all the pages need to be in a single Visio file, which can be a pain both in file generation time (12 pages takes several minutes), and also not so good if we want multiple people working on it simultaneously.
Has anyone had any experience in using Acrobat for this purpose? We're not looking for a more specialised tool at the moment, because that's a long-term decision with many other factors, so at the moment we're looking at what we can do with the bog-standard generally-found-in-offices-type tools. We don't have the full version at the moment, but will consider purchasing if it looks like it will be useful.
I seem to recall, from a long-distant Acrobat training course, that while there were heaps of things you could do with Acrobat in terms of links, hotspots, etc, a lot of it was done manually, post- generation. We'd like to avoid that overhead, if possible.
Version-control-wise, we use Sharepoint document repository, so something that will work with that would be good.
Has anyone attempted something like this - with Acrobat or any other non-specialised tool? Good experiences? Bad experiences? 

Thanks
Elizabeth



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