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Improvement of the Technical Manual's Reference part

Improvement of the Technical Manual's Reference part

Friday 31 July 2009 11:42:50 am - 2 replies

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Heath

Monday 17 August 2009 8:57:53 am

I tend to agree with this request in general. This part of the manual has always been an eyesore. It would be very fine indeed if this was ever addressed. I know I always end up landing on one of these pages only to find no useful information or content displayed.

Cheers,
Heath

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Jozef Baum

Wednesday 19 August 2009 5:14:42 pm

Thank you for your posting, Heath.

Instead of loosing lots of time to try to find out how eZ Publish works, I am waiting for the book "eZ Publish 4: Enterprise Web Sites Step-by-Step", which should be available in October.

However, it will comprise only about 300 pages. Therefore, it cannot be a substitute for the poorly written and very incomplete technical manual with its 1880 pages in its A4-PDF edition.

So, although the eZ Systems crew clearly seems to largely underestimate the enormous drawback the lack of good documentation constitutes for eZ Systems to be used by more people, I feel we cannot insist enough by asking them to eventually improve the documentation to the quality level of eZ Publish.

Of course, the lack of good documentation will push some users to pay for training. But a lot of other users will simply turn to a perhaps less powerfull, but well documented system.

Look at other software with a licence model similar to that of eZ Publish (commercial and open source). OpenSolaris is very well documented by Sun Microsystems. OpenSuse Linux is very well documented by Novell.

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