[TYPO3-dev] Ideas backend documentation

[Christoph Lindenmueller]

Hi T3-dev,

Thanks for all your input, so I can refine my plan. Good to hear that 
this is something needed!

To introduce myself: I am studying Media Computer Science at the 
University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart, Germany (hdm-stuttgart.de), 
that where I met Benjamin Mack, who showed be what TYPO3 can do, we do 
xnos Internet Services. My Interest is Linux Server, Ubuntu Desktop and 
rocking Information Systems. I worked several years as PHP Developer.

My email is christoph @T xnos Dot de

Greets,

Christoph.

Bernd Wilke schrieb:
> Christoph Lindenmueller schrieb:
>> Hi T3 Dev,
>>
>> I wonder what improvements regarding the documentation workflow could be 
>> a project for my diploma thesis. I thought about improving the inline 
>> help (? symbol) using AJAX and generate OpenOffice "Manuals" for Users.
>>
>> What about pulling the help text/images from a wiki in order to make 
>> text updates easier?
>>
>> What do you think about providing the possility to insert 
>> installation-specific help items?
>>
>> What are your thoughts how to improve the documentation workflow?
> 
> I confess I nearly never used context-help as the information provided 
> was of no good to my needs.
> 
> This might be because I normaly configure the system (as admin).
> 
> For editors this can be a good help to know how they have to fill in 
> fields and what they have to watch for. This is information I (=admin) 
> can provide.
> But this might only belong to this installation. So an exchange to a 
> central service might confuse others.
> 
> My admin-view: I want a good documentation about features I can 
> configure. This mostly means TypoScript. the best documentation yet 
> (tsref) lacks imho two things:
> 1. version information: for every feature/value the version since when 
> it was implemented
> 2. the possibility for everyone to add good examples. espacially for 
> beginners the documentation is hard to understand as there are to less 
> and to small examples
> (maybe something the manuals on php.net)
> 
> Bernd
>