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sw for advanced manual

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Good morning.
I don't know if this is the right section of the forum, in case negative I apologize in advance.
I would like to know if any of you can tell me about software names specialized in technical documentation. what I am interested in is the creation of templates for complex manuals starting from databases linked to sap.
It would therefore be to have an up-to-date and editable layout in time to create new manuals, in which to manage the placement information of the various data (e.g. xml, excell tables etc.) present in sap and therefore up-to-date, with the consequent updating of the final manual. I don't know if I explained. .

Thank you! :smile:
 
strangelittle_girl said:
Good morning.
I don't know if this is the right section of the forum, in case negative I apologize in advance.
I would like to know if any of you can tell me about software names specialized in technical documentation. what I am interested in is the creation of templates for complex manuals starting from databases linked to sap.
It would therefore be to have an up-to-date and editable layout in time to create new manuals, in which to manage the placement information of the various data (e.g. xml, excell tables etc.) present in sap and therefore up-to-date, with the consequent updating of the final manual. I don't know if I explained. .

Thank you! :smile:
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the best in business is 3dvia composed.
 
strangelittle_girl said:
3dvia composer doesn't seem to do what I need.. .
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I read 'technical documentation'.
If it doesn't suit you and a few answers came, or I didn't understand what 'technical documentation' is for you or you weren't exhaustive.
or explain yourself better or attach an example.
 
SolidUser said:
I read 'technical documentation'.
If it doesn't suit you and a few answers came, or I didn't understand what 'technical documentation' is for you or you weren't exhaustive.
or explain yourself better or attach an example.
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hi soliduser, dealing with a generic question does not seem necessary an example to attach and for that I did not.
technical documentation must not necessarily be connected to images generated by a cad\3dvia in fact I did not talk about this, the final result will give technical documents\manual however what I am interested in is to find a sw that allows to connect multiple files (tabelle excel, xml, text word etc.).
I imagine that, by setting up the general layout with, for example, grids, I simply need to give information about "neck" of the above files in the template itself.
all must be up-to-date because these files will be updated from the various offices with sap (and therefore do not reside locally), so the information contained in the template should be updated automatically.
I know that there are sw like this but I just wanted to have opinions from other people, if there are no answers then it could mean - unlike what you say - that no one in the community uses this procedure, which is plausible.

greetings
 
strangelittle_girl said:
hi soliduser, dealing with a generic question does not seem necessary an example to attach and for that I did not.
technical documentation must not necessarily be connected to images generated by a cad\3dvia in fact I did not talk about this, the final result will give technical documents\manual however what I am interested in is to find a sw that allows to connect multiple files (tabelle excel, xml, text word etc.).
I imagine that, by setting up the general layout with, for example, grids, I simply need to give information about "neck" of the above files in the template itself.
all must be up-to-date because these files will be updated from the various offices with sap (and therefore do not reside locally), so the information contained in the template should be updated automatically.
I know that there are sw like this but I just wanted to have opinions from other people, if there are no answers then it could mean - unlike what you say - that no one in the community uses this procedure, which is plausible.

greetings
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from what you write, everything is within your reach.
sap can handle documents of all kinds.
you can create a master with buttons where the tutor defines the paths.
in those paths there will be documents created by the various agencies, managed by sap and not only.
This in principle, for the rest, uses a little inventive.

If you want to complicate life, there is share point, which should do what you ask, but be careful, it is a software to know and set.
 
SolidUser said:
from what you write, everything is within your reach.
sap can handle documents of all kinds.
you can create a master with buttons where the tutor defines the paths.
in those paths there will be documents created by the various agencies, managed by sap and not only.
This in principle, for the rest, uses a little inventive.

If you want to complicate life, there is share point, which should do what you ask, but be careful, it is a software to know and set.
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hi soliduser, I don't know directly sap, when you talk about "masters with buttons where the tutor defines the paths" you mean inside sap?
 
adobe livecycle serves precisely this... to take everything and create the pdf even interactive if you want.
 
interesting. . Then maybe you could do my case.. I would like cmq to deepen you know where I can find a guide?
 
hi strangelittle_girl, what you have to do, unlike those who think that everything comes from the cad, is a document "assieme" (just to stay in the language) whose "parts" are however files of nature text, table and, possibly, image. Right?
the adobe suite should actually do what you ask, although I don't know what solution in particular.
an international marketed solution are the arbortext packages of ptc: there is that to create technical illustration from cad document, that to set the style and the templates of the documents and finally what is defined editor, that is a kind of word, a word processor, but besides writing in a "neutral" way, it serves to keep the links with external documents containing the information, that can be updated independently from the document. the interesting thing is that one comes to create what in the world falls is called "association", that is the update of the father file (the one of the editor) according to the changes made on the children.
other companies that provide such tools are there, but they are hardly represented in Italy, or you will find great diffusion. I think a brand is called a blast. if you "gugoli" something you find.

in any case the technology you need is that of a set of products you work on xml, a standard of management of metadata between files, which precisely keeps the relationships between them and bring them back to the master. Did I get it right?

ps: 3dvia composer is a great tool, but also arbortext cadprocess is, as well as adobe illustrator.. depends on the compatibility of the files and the interaction that there must be. if you spend 10 minutes doing explosives but 2 hours fixing the files, I would think well before evaluating "the best on the market"!
 
El_Bluesss said:
in addition to writing "neutral"
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Sorry... with this I meant that the editor is a standard tool that has its own "fixed" interface: the style and layout with which you publish them define them with the styler, the tool precisely to create the templates. this allows you to have only one content related to different publishing layouts, and also to different file formats (pdf ok, but why not cd, html for web etc.? )

zaove
 
I add latex and his friends.

If I didn't get it wrong, you need models to do manuals.. .
I am in the same situation, where sometimes I happen to make technical descriptions for offers, technical files. . .
my intention is to make a model where every time I go to update content and images.. .

are of the idea that the more programs are "easy" to use, the more you lose control and ability (also cognitive) to use them really... and the more it becomes "difficult" and heavy make changes when needed. . .

easy to use = with many icons making many automatic steps... without me knowing.. .

for the law of murphy there will always be that time you are late with the expiration, the customer is waiting for the sheets that come out from the printer, and you can not make him understand that after the word rev. (abbreviation of revision the capital does not have to be there.

I hope to have been clear and understandable, considering that it is Friday...
 
I personally had the opportunity to attend various demos and see some installations for important customers, and I must say I was very impressed. I personally know the lords of tesla and so I could unseen different critical aspects, entering the details. the product is definitely great but at the moment I have no info on the economic side. If you want me to know, no problem.
 

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