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Suggestion #2:
Quantify change and use that measure in decision support and communication.
Example: Adding a feature where you could click and get an alternate view of the resource tree and see security settings at a glance, and it was an *addition*, it does not change peoples world much at all - all their visual references and landmarks are still there. However, if we are moving or changing screen elements, renaming menu items or what they do when you click, that is a greater impact and it impacts documentation far more.
So having a way of uniformly measuring levels of change and gaging the impact as part of the process; and then communicating those changes. Especially if we are moving things on the screen, relabeling them, actually changing what they do. If it sparks even 5% of the community to initiate or receive a support call, it cost us invisible time/$.
Geeky stuff, but...
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FWIW, I have posted version 0.1 of the MODX content management guide, a Microsoft Word document designed to be adapted and handed out to system end-users. This guide is for the people who use MODX Revolution to update and add content on existing websites - not developers or designers, but people with titles like "communications officer" who need to add text and photos and the like.
Details in this thread:
http://forums.modx.com/thread/78207/time-for-a-modx-revolution-guide-manual-for-editors-and-other-end-users?page=2#dis-post-449692
David Walker
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I see this is an old thread, but if there is still a need for help with document writing I'd be willing to help out where I can.
I see gaps in information often and would love to help make the documentation as clear and concise as possible for current and future MODXers.
PM me or hit me up on Twitter if I can help!
MODX...the Zen of CMS
"Bight off more than you can chew and keep right on chewing."
Hey folks. This week we turned on the new rtfm.modx.com which is built on MODX. At this time we are seeking help in cleaning up pages that have missing content after the very painful extraction of the content from the old Confluence based docs.
Currently your old RTFM login will not work (your modx.com login should work in the next couple of weeks). We would be happy to have anyone who was an editor/contributor with access to rtfm.modx.com previously to help us in this effort. Top priority is to get the first 50 most visited pages back into shape. There are quite a number of pages that are missing or have malformed content. Volunteers would review the pages on both the new docs and the old docs and migrate content over manually to the new docs. Ideally, the process of migration would also include cleaning the markup and stripping any of the Confluence classes and such. The new docs only have a few styles and are mostly based around standard HTML Markup. There is a WYSIWYG editor on the documentation, however, the process will still require people to work with HTML. If this doesn't appeal, don't worry, we'll certainly look for you to help in editing and making content better when we reach that phase.
If you wish to participate in helping clean up the docs, please send me an email to
[email protected].
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It could be added here that the new docs have a problem with some browsers; it's best viewed with the latest version of Google Chrome, at least until the problem (overflow and scrolling issues) gets fixed.
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The Class Reference is seriously messed up right now. The Syntax specification is missing, as are most of the argument descriptions and the return type.
For example:
http://rtfm.modx.com/revolution/2.x/developing-in-modx/other-development-resources/class-reference/modx/modx.makeurl
The info is pulled from the PhpDoc comments, but for makeUrl() they look like this:
/* @access public
* @param integer $id The id of a resource.
* @param string $args A query string to append to the generated URL.
* @param mixed $scheme The scheme indicates in what format the URL is generated.<br>
* <pre>
* -1 : (default value) URL is relative to site_url
* 0 : see http
* 1 : see https
* full : URL is absolute, prepended with site_url from config
* abs : URL is absolute, prepended with base_url from config
* http : URL is absolute, forced to http scheme
* https : URL is absolute, forced to https scheme
* </pre>
* @param array $options An array of options for generating the Resource URL.
* @return string The URL for the resource.
*/
Only the part between the pre tags is making it into the docs.