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Subject:Re: On-line help applications From:Rick Waugh <rick_waugh -at- MINDLINK -dot- NET> Date:Wed, 23 Aug 1995 18:17:34 LCL
In article <199508231641 -dot- MAA29878 -at- lynx -dot- dac -dot- neu -dot- edu> Paul Cassidy
<pcassidy -at- lynx -dot- dac -dot- neu -dot- edu> writes:
>From: Paul Cassidy <pcassidy -at- lynx -dot- dac -dot- neu -dot- edu>
>Subject: On-line help applications
>Date: 23 Aug 1995 19:46:57 -0000
>Hey folks,
>I have been asked to place a 750 page document on-line for a company. The
>company will have 1000 people using the document on a regular basis. About
>half of the on-line document will change 4 times a year. The client will
>most likely do the on-line editing.
>The on-line document needs:
> to be searchable
> to have hyperlinks
> to have an easy-to-use interface
> to be easily updateable
> to use linked Word documents.
I've just finished writing a manual in Word, that I then put into Lotus Notes.
Notes comes with a bunch of standard database "formats", one of which is
called a "Book".
There are four levels of headings, all of which display in the table of
contents. There is an index. You can have "hyperlinks" (Lotus calls them
doclinks.) Because of Note's replication capabilities, multiple servers can be
located in diverse geographic locations, and have updated copies move around
automatically.
In addition, Notes can be full text indexed.
I wrote the documents in word, then pasted them into the Notes database.
It matches just about all your criteria. Take a look at it.....
