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Hi,
I'm looking for some advice, and knowing the depth of knowledge and
understanding on this list I thought this would be a good place to
start. I've been researching the use of a wiki for obtaining feedback
for our documentation, but it would seem from what I can determine that
most seem to require users to create the content in the wiki.
Presently, we create all of our content in FrameMaker 7.1 We then create
PDF to allow users to print, and use WebWorks Publisher to create HTML
Help. We would prefer to continue with these tools for our formal
documentation. Our need then, when using a wiki, is to be able to import
already prepared documentation, without losing all of the cross
references within the documentation set. Ideally, we would like to
import the already prepared HTML Help, and make this editable in the
wiki. There are many, many wikis from which to choose, but in looking at
the feature sets of those that I have examined, I don't see any
references to this kind of import.
For budgetary reasons we are shy of looking at some of the proprietary
solutions, so we would prefer to seek out something in the open source
realm. Can I ask if there is anybody out there who has faced, and
solved, a similar problem? Which of the wikis did you use, and did you
find there were any configuration challenges?
Many thanks,
Brian Shaw
Documentation Specialist
Activplant Corporation
Canada
www.activplant.com
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