Integrating a documentation/help engine with Omnis desktop app

Fri Nov 11 13:32:11 UTC 2022

Thank you to all who sent me their ideas and solutions. I really appreciate it.
All your ideas are smart and interesting, we'll investigate each of them and see which one works for us the most.

Thank you again and have a happy Friday,
Mayada

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We use oWrite this way for writing and storing documents.  But I don’t think oWrite can pull the HTML file back in and allow you to carry on where you left off, you have to save it as an oWrite binary file.

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On 11 Nov 2022, at 06:07, Scotte Meredith <spomacguy at gmail.com<mailto:spomacguy at gmail.com>> wrote:

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oWrite takes word processing docs and one of the options to save is HTML. So you could keep the docs in the database and save to a website (or on the local server) as HTML. It's not going to be as complete a solution as FrameMaker or RoboHelp, but it is pretty good. And would be much easier to use than either of the others. Keep a table of all your documents and store with it a path to the server where you want them saved and that would work.

On Nov 10, 2022, at 7:38 PM, Mayada Al-Kishtini <malkishtini at gmail.com<mailto:malkishtini at gmail.com>> wrote:

Both. The requirement now is to make the document editable by end use and our support team. At end, we might not need end users to edit the docs, but we want them to be easy to edit by non technical users, users with no dev skills.

Thank you,
Mayada

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On Nov 10, 2022, at 9:49 PM, Scotte Meredith <spomacguy at gmail.com<mailto:spomacguy at gmail.com>> wrote:

So you want the end user to edit their own docs? Or your manual writer would upset the docs?

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On Nov 10, 2022, at 6:35 PM, malkishtini at gmail.com<mailto:malkishtini at gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you, Scotte for your feedback. How can the user edit the document when it is in an HTML? Say they access it from oBrowser and then they want to add a new image to it or edit the content?

Mayada

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If you make it HTML you can access it from a window with oBrowser component, as well as online. You could create content in Adobe Robohelp and/or FrameMaker to create the HTML.

Or create in Word and save as HTML.

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On Nov 10, 2022, at 6:04 PM, malkishtini at gmail.com<mailto:malkishtini at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi $listers,

We are looking for a reliable/easy to use/edit documentation engine to integrate with our Omnis desktop app in Studio 10.22.
We are thinking to add a help support to each window in the system that users can easily access and edit.

Any suggestions/thoughts about a tool or an engine (free or with a reasonable cost) that we can install on a centralized server on the cloud?
I appreciate all your ideas and feedbacks.

Thank you,
Mayada Al-Kishtini

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