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However, I have fought and lost that same battle here, before. I have even
used, as ammo, older versions of the UG that promised future functionality
that was *never* actually implemented.
All I could do was to present my reasons for not wanting to include such
references in post-sales documents, and my point of view was considered
before I was overruled by folks up the food chain (which is fine, the docs
are company docs, they are *not* mine, personally, so I was and am happy to
have had my say, even if I was overruled).
Cheers,
Sean
sean -at- quodata -dot- com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Field, Kristin [SMTP:KField -at- LSAC -dot- org]
>
> I am currently updating a user's manual from a year and a half ago written
> by a different author. There are several references in the manual of
> future
> funcionality for the particular application I am updating the manual for.
> For example, "The XXX allows you to do YYY. In a future release, you
> will
> be able to do ZZZ." Personally, I think this is a bad practice and don't
> feel that any future plans for the application should be in a user's
> (basically a "How to") manual. I mean, this manual is a year and a half
> old, as I mentioned, and the future functionality is still future
> functionality.
>
> Wouldn't that be best left to the marketing literature?
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