atw: Re: All Electronic Doco Solution?

Peter:

Thanks for the explanation. Your idea is very interesting. Sort of like
a more structured type of wiki.

Do you know if there are any software providers with a product that does
what you suggest?

I guess in your scenario the user would log into a website, navigate to
the relevant content, edit it and save their changes. You'd probably
want the system then to automatically notify the relevant tech writer
and/or BA and/or SME that a change had been made.

Thanks again.

Matthew 

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Subject: atw: Re: All Electronic Doco Solution?

Matthew:
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:01:44 +1000,  you wrote:
> Peter:
>
> What do you mean by "controlling and delivering the source files for
> privileged authors"?
>
> Do you mean CMS functionality?
>
> What about delivery to the user?
>

Er, I did mention an HTML site and generation of PDF..    That was meant
for the user.
In fact, if you've got your source files in XML and you have some smart
XSL
people or tools, you can deliver to the user in many other formats
without too 
much trouble, distributing only the latest (approved) documents. 

I would never mean "CMS functionality" because I never know what that
means,
particularly the latter word, which is a swear word to me.

By "controlling and delivering the source files for privileged authors"
,
I mean letting authors get at the original source file in storage to
change them, while
keeping a track of the changes they make as they move files back into
the system.
And "privileged" means not every man/woman and his/her dog gets to
change the
source docs.    Also implied in document control is a process of
ensuring only 
approved files are released. 

Source file storage is one thing.... tracking of changes is a step or
two further on, as in
source code control in systems like CVS, RCS etc...  can be more useful,
particularly
in group authoring  environments.

--Peter M

 
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