Hi all
I have been set the task of documenting a number of projects that have
developed and grown over the last 5 years. The documentation I collate and
produce for the project, plus links and and other info I find needs to be
manually added to a central repositiory, and made searchable (on both
technical and user guide levels) via our intranet.
The projects involves C#, VB6, SQL Server 2000, MS Access front Ends,
Dreamweaver, IIS etc. Most of the individual code is well documented, but
there is little or no overall documentation relating to how the component
parts sit together, what hardware they run on, any extra details such as
functional summaries etc.
The question I have is - What do you guys use? and have you any
recommendations.
I thought something similar to Google desktop, but more structured towards
a software project.
A typical example might be if the user searched for say 'Project 1 AND
Import', then the engine would look through the relevant project and bring
back say :
A word document containing an exective summary of how importing works for
the specified project.
Other documents that relate to this are of the project.
What language the particular software is written in
where on out servers the source code is stored.
where the executables live
Related visio flow charts
and any other relevant info within the repository that I have added.
I know I could put something together myself, but it would take too long.
I'm looking for an off the shelf document management package that is based
toward provided technical assistance and user manuals rather than checking
documents in/out. What I don't want to write is a static word document that
becomes too large to manage and eventually dies.
thanks in advance
Andy.
