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Re: Scoping out possible document management solutions
Subject:Re: Scoping out possible document management solutions From:Elna Tymes <etymes -at- LTS -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 25 Jul 1997 13:03:29 -0700
Raymond -
> Our training courses are of particular concern. We would want a solution
> that could handle this:
>
> 1. Courses, modules, types of info within a module, could be treated as
> information objects and called on demand.
>
> 2. Because we tailor courses for clients, we may for example want to
> create a course containing modules from programming, ooad, and
> architecture module objects (contained within course objects). The
> automatic creation of toc, index, etc, is, of course, desirable.
You do realize, don't you, that you can do everything you want by
loading the whole training set of courses onto an intranet, which can
then be manipulated via some simple HTML commands? There are a number
of intranet-management packages out there and emerging, and I know of
one of them (ExpressDoc) that lets you create TOCs on the fly. (I'm not
sure about doing an index in ExpressDoc, though.)
Elna Tymes
Los Trancos Systems
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