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Documentation. What about a v2 ?


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MikeTwoOne
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Hi,

When speaking with Skydemon users and asking about it's limitation, it's becoming obvious that the answer is no longer about the product itself. A recurring complaint is now about documentation.

For a new user the learning curve is high, but even for a long time user it's sometimes hard to find about the new functions. I've summarized the main 'SD 2014 additions' to a panel of users last week, and most of them were not knowing at all about most of them, even the historical users.

The documentation, in his actual format, is not as helpful as it should be:
- Some parts are confusing, due to the formatting (lack of clear marking/separators/titles). 
- Not being able to (easily) download the documentation leads to multiple unofficial versions of the documentation, all generated by different people, and based of different versions, since this is the only way to search, navigate or read the documentation in a modern way (with search, annotations, read position saving, ...). 
- There's no exhaustive description for menus and trying to figure how an entry acts could be the start of a very long journey. On the other side, finding the menu for a documented capability is as difficult.
- A clear changelog (with a link to a specific part of the manual or an explanation of any new capability) is really missing.

Comparing with other tools on the market, Skydemon is way ahead when speaking about capabilities. But the documentation is way behind... 

I know I've initiated one of the most annoying topic a development team can think about (sorry about that), but I'm absolutely convicted that this is now one of the main area of improvement for Skydemon and definitely a way to give this wonderfull product the love it deserves Smile

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MikeTwoOne - 11/24/2014 4:04:24 PM
Tim Dawson - 11/24/2014 5:26:01 PM
MikeTwoOne - 11/24/2014 6:54:10 PM
Fleagle - 11/26/2014 9:13:39 AM
ckurz7000 - 11/26/2014 11:10:58 AM
                         Chris I agree wholeheartedly.I have a friend who never reads 'the...
Sky Painter - 11/26/2014 12:23:25 PM
                         [quote]I don't think that stating a well known fact, i.e., that most...
MikeTwoOne - 11/26/2014 2:20:11 PM
Tim Dawson - 11/24/2014 5:26:57 PM
Tim Dawson - 11/24/2014 7:32:10 PM
Pete - 11/24/2014 11:19:07 PM
Tim Dawson - 11/25/2014 10:39:35 AM
Tim Dawson - 11/26/2014 3:50:23 PM
Tim Dawson - 11/27/2014 5:29:51 PM
Sky Painter - 11/27/2014 10:10:24 PM

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