Re: managing document revisions?

["Engstrom, Douglas D." <EngstromDD -at- PHIBRED -dot- COM>]

Dan:

This is written in response to:

>> In the environment you're describing, you could use versions to
>> designate software-driven documentation changes, and the sub-versions to
>> represent maintenance of the old-version document.  You can have up to
>> 99 versions of each document, along with up to 26 sub-versions of each
>> version available in the document database at any given time.
>That sounds ideal, but I don't think we have the personnel or disk space!
You can also limit the number of versions or sub-versions by work group
or document type.  However, making those kinds of decisions is the sort
of thing that makes document management difficult.  Deploying a document
management system is essentially like developing and deploying a small
client-server app. It's a project, and needs to be treated as such.
>
>> I'm administering a document
>> management system here (ironically, not for technical communications as
>> such) and will be happy to talk to you about it.
>We are having some meetings over the next few days... I may contact you for
>more advice!
Feel free...

Skoal,

Doug Engstrom                           "It's hard not to rock the boat when you're
engstromdd -at- phibred -dot- com           sailing against the undertow."
                                                                --- The Indigo Girls

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