RE: Wiki - What??

SharePoint is essentially a pseudo-blend of Domino and SameTime.  Group
workspaces.  It has inherent document control & revision tracking, forms
processing (XML), calendaring, etc. We're just starting to get in to it
here so I don't quite know enough about it to be dangerous just yet.

I agree with Rob that a Wiki-based solution may not be satisfactory.  It
may be nice for the doc development/revision process if a lot of hands
touch the docs but the final form may be better stored & presented in a
SharePoint or Domino type of store.  


John A. Jones, CISSP
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I've found trying to search wiki.midrange.com can be a bit troublesome
at times.  I am not so sure that wiki is the end all - be all.
We're using a couple of Notes databases.  One is pretty much a
free-for-all.  Post what you want in here.  Using the category is
optional.

The other is based off of the Document Control database offered at
http://www.etq.com/index.html We allow anyone to create a document.
However each document has to go through an automated review process.
And you can set up multiple review processes based on document type.
For example, our "Signup sheet for downtimes for next year" sequentially
routes through all the people in the department by seniority (manually
determined).  While the "Steps for preparing for downtime" may be simply
approved by the boss.

Rob Berendt
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It appears that the brown stuff has finally hit the fan, and someone is
getting serious about having a place for systems and "repair"
documentation, and making documentation a top priority, i.e., "You WILL
document what you have found out."

So, I have read some stuff about Wiki and having it as a data store. Is
this a good way to handle this kind of information? What do you consider
the best method? M$FT is coming out with a new inter-office
communications package "Sharepoint". Would that work for this? We have a
package called Niku that could do it, and another called Magic... But
there are too many possible places, and the net effect seems to be that
you can't find anything, and up until now, it wasn't required that it be
kept up to date.

The folks on this forum are the ones that I want to hear from - based on
what I have been reading ... 

Thank you for your ideas,

Dave