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Re: can you recommend a search tool we could attach to our html documentation?
Subject:Re: can you recommend a search tool we could attach to our html documentation? From:lksloan -at- informationuniverse -dot- com To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Fri, 9 Jan 2004 09:57:58 -0700
I can think of a couple possibilities here you might want to consider for
better access than a full-text search.
1. Meta data descriptive tags in the web pages for selective in-context
search or
2. An online subjet index to the documentation.
Hope this helps. Please contact me if you have any questions on these.
Sincerely,
Linda Sloan
Information Universe
Lksloan -at- informationuniverse -dot- com
> We have extensive html documentation for our router product, which is
> provided on CD. We use Dreamweave to produce the docs. Currently there is no
> way to search it for a word or phrase. This results in increased calls to
> our help desk because people who are new to the product don't know how to
> find options in the router web. They can't search the documentation to find
> the location of the feature or option they're looking for! I think this is a
> great flaw in our docs.
>
> Can anyone recommend a good search tool that we could add to our html docs
> to enable customers to find the information for themselves? I found nothing
> on this in the archives, unfortunately.
>
> elizabeth
>
> Elizabeth OShea
> Documentation
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