Error Message Appendix

["Dave Stewart" <stewed11 -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Hi,

For the software I currently document, the engineers have written a large 
number of error messages that appear when a user performs a task 
incorrectly.

For instance, an error message will pop up on the screen when a user 
neglects to import a required file or types a number that is outside the 
minimum and maxiumum allowed values for a certain parameter.

We've received feedback from customers that the error messages are not 
descriptive enough, and we're working on making the messages more 
comprehensible so users know exactly what went wrong and how to fix the 
problem.

I'm wondering if anyone has ever included an appendix in their documentation 
listing each error message in the source code, along with more extensive 
descriptions of the solutions to each problem?

Thanks,

Dave...



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