Re: Help! green screens on the web

Subject: Re: Help! green screens on the web
From: Dan Brinegar <vr2link -at- vr2link -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 08:49:06 -0700

On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 09:00:25 -0800 (PST), Bill Swallow
<bill_swallow -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:

>Also (and I know this is less than optimal), if you
>document your screens and their respective fields
>first, and don't have time to create a task-based
>manual, at least you have the screens done. Your users
>will at least know what does what on the various
>screens. You can then always pump out the task-driven
>docs over the next few weeks/months. If it is months,
>I suggest informally releasing completed tasks or
>chapters as they are finished and OK'd.

And earlier Mike Collier reminded us to do a Task analysis on the Green
Stuff--

Even if they haven't thought of it yet, the folks migrating this
application to
a Web interface will need the screen/field and "tasked" documentation to
complete
the move (even if they *did* use some horribly expensive Oracle product
to do the initial port; they'll have to have some idea how it was used,
rather than how it
worked, in order to make it run again).

Some techwriter/QA-type/field-trials victim/user is going to have to do
these things either before or after the initial rollout.

Lotsa good stuff in the archives and TECHWR-L Directory on Job and Task
Analysis, BTW.

Good luck!
dan'l

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