TechWhirl (TECHWR-L) is a resource for technical writing and technical communications professionals of all experience levels and in all industries to share their experiences and acquire information.
For two decades, technical communicators have turned to TechWhirl to ask and answer questions about the always-changing world of technical communications, such as tools, skills, career paths, methodologies, and emerging industries. The TechWhirl Archives and magazine, created for, by and about technical writers, offer a wealth of knowledge to everyone with an interest in any aspect of technical communications.
I work in a situation where changes to certain systems are written by the QA
tester. What happens is they write up a new field definition, using a
standard, and make the changes in OfficeVision, an AS/400 word processor.
They highlight what they changed and give me a hardcopy. I have converted
the ~3700 pages of OV help text into RH projects. I make the same change,
editing it, in RH. This will continue until 8/31/01, when we will apply a
new OS to our 400 that does not allow changes to OV docs. Then the QA tester
will get a copy of the Word doc, make their change (after some Word
training) and forward the changes to me. I'll import the doc into the RH
project and life will go on.
I told my manager that my goal for "someday" is this: when a project is
delivered to QA for testing, changes to the help text are made and the QA
tester can verify that the help is complete/technically accurrate. There's
no QA for my .hlp files now, except me. No stress. <grin>
Paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michele Marques [SMTP:marquesm -at- autros -dot- com]
> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 8:56 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: RE: Documentation Process [long]
<snip>
> When non-writers write, it is not always programmers - for example it may
> be people in training, implementation or QA.
<snip>
*** Deva(tm) Tools for Dreamweaver and Deva(tm) Search ***
Build Contents, Indexes, and Search for Web Sites and Help Systems
Available now at http://www.devahelp.com or info -at- devahelp -dot- com
A landmark hotel, one of America's most beautiful cities, and
three and a half days of immersion in the state of the art:
IPCC 01, Oct. 24-27 in Santa Fe. http://ieeepcs.org/2001/
---
You are currently subscribed to techwr-l as: archive -at- raycomm -dot- com
To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-techwr-l-obscured -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
Send administrative questions to ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com -dot- Visit http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/ for more resources and info.
