Re: Documentation

[Bob Crandell <..hidden..>]

That's even better yet.  Some software I've seen over time had little
pop ups that was to be their help system but those pop ups only repeated
the label to the field so they were annoying and useless.

On Tue, 2016-05-17 at 09:52 +0200, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> Hi Bob,
> 
> 
>         I hope it's alright to make a suggestion or two.
> 
> 
> Sure is! Thanks for taking the time to mail us your feedback!
> 
>  
>         For the documentation put a question mark on each screen
>         describing what
>         the screen is for with examples of what could go in each
>         field.
> 
> 
> I like the idea, a lot. Thinking about it a bit more, I think we don't
> have any current
> 
> documentation that we could put in the docs there. Maybe it's an idea
> to link the
> 
> question mark to a wiki where everybody can help out writing this help
> content,
> 
> making it a community project? What do you think? 
> 
> 
> 
>         The PDF [manual] would be more procedures like how to
>         reconcile the check book,
>         how to pay an invoice, how to conduct inventory adjustments,
>         how to set
>         the silly thing up in the first place.
> 
> 
> Workflow documentation? Sounds good. That's something that's
> cross-screen indeed.
> 
>  
>         This way the docs for the
>         screens can change as the program matures without having to
>         mess with
>         the manual.  The manual can grow with "How do I" stuff.
>  
> 
> Sounds sane. The problem we're currently having is that writing those
> docs is possibly
> 
> more work than writing the application :-) Which is why I came up with
> the wiki idea
> 
> above: making it a community project *could* help spread the workload.
> 
> 
> 
>         Thanks for all the hard work.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the feedback! Keep it coming!
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Bye,
> 
> 
> Erik.
> 
> 
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