RE: If you were making a FAQ...

Subject: RE: If you were making a FAQ...
From: "McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>
To: Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:58:15 -0400

Ha-ha. Funny.

The primary documentation for the product in question (one of many) is WebHelp/HTML-5 help totalling over 2000 topics.
Of that, ONE TOPIC is currently a FAQ.

Please be a little careful about that kind of remark, or insert a smiley or something, otherwise, somebody will take it as fact and repeat it, to my employer's detriment.




From: Gene Kim-Eng [mailto:techwr -at- genek -dot- com]
Sent: August-30-12 4:45 PM
To: McLauchlan, Kevin
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: If you were making a FAQ...

I would hope that any company whose primary product document was an FAQ would make it available pre-sale so I can find out that that's all the info I'm going to get in time to shop for an alternate product.

Gene Kim-Eng
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 1:03 PM, McLauchlan, Kevin <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com<mailto:Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>> wrote:
a) Would you include it in online help (WebHelp) if that was the primary documentation for your product?

b) If yes, then would you make it one big FAQ topic/page, or would you make each Q and A a separate topic/page under a FAQ "book" in the ToC?

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