Easy Software Documentation

General
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What is the best way to make documentations for software in Xojo. Please feel free to promote your own or someone else’s commercial or free tools for ONLINE and/or OFFLINE documentation. :wink:

I would like to use possibly something like wikimedia like Xojo does but I have no idea how to use Wikimedia and make professional looking pages. I am looking for a program that allows you to build Wikimedia websites, instead of writing code for it. I am not a big fan of writing code for this as it seems more convenient to use visual web design software. I do not mind designing my own set of webpages for documentation of my software.

Thanks in advance

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Have you thought about using a web app backed by a database?

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Ooh…sorry. For now, I do not want to be investing any money in the web edition of Xojo but thanks for the suggestion.

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It may be good for me to use Microsoft Expression Web instead of Xojo web. As Expression is free.

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Hello, Oliver!

You can try Helpinator (the tool created by me).

It has a lot of supported help and documentation formats, but for use with Xojo I recommend WebHelp (HTML + JQuery) or “Publish to Wordpress” feature if you have a website that is powered by WordPress.

Key pros:

  1. Easy to use editor
  2. Built-in screenshot capture and annotations
  3. Built-in tutorial maker
  4. Built-in help and documentation templates
  5. VCS-friendly project storage, no need to check-in entire project file.
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[quote=35220:@Dmitri Popov]Hello, Oliver!

You can try Helpinator (the tool created by me).

It has a lot of supported help and documentation formats, but for use with Xojo I recommend WebHelp (HTML + JQuery) or “Publish to Wordpress” feature if you have a website that is powered by WordPress.

Key pros:

  1. Easy to use editor
  2. Built-in screenshot capture and annotations
  3. Built-in tutorial maker
  4. Built-in help and documentation templates
  5. VCS-friendly project storage, no need to check-in entire project file.[/quote]
    Thanks.
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I use ScreenSteps to create my user documentation. Easy to use and many different output options: MS Word, PDF, HTML, Google sites with template, various blog formats.

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Thanks for the suggestion.