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Subject:Re: Document serial numbers From:Writers Book Mall <steve -at- writersbookmall -dot- com> To:Daniel Ng <kjng -at- gprotechnologies -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 25 May 2007 06:27:30 -0700 (PDT)
You might find it helpful to organize by subject
matter as well, perhaps something like this:
subject area/doc type/number/date (i.e. version)
--- Daniel Ng <kjng -at- gprotechnologies -dot- com> wrote:
> Been asked to develop a document coding mechanism
> for all the documents
> that we have in a project.
>
>
> This will also aid indexing. We have approximately
> 60 over documents
> that may need to be 'codified' or indexed.
>
> What sort of guidelines would you start with
>
> <documenttype>/<modifieddate>/<runningserial number>
>
> It's a simple idea but I'm stuck for a simpler
> mechanism
>
> <documenttype>/<runningserial number>/<document
> version i.e 1.1, 1.2a,
> etc>
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