Replicating a ''manual'' in livelink

[jaip112]

Hi,

I have been tasked with replicating a manual or a book in an application system.

This manual needs to be broken down into chapters, sub chapters, and index, appendix, etc.

There needs to be a content management process to ensure that the chapters, sub chapters, pages, etc are correct and fit for purpose, by relevent people.

Is this possible with livelink? We already use livelink for other things, but im not too familiar with it. If so, does anyone know where i begin? I already have all the content, etc, it just needs to be deployed??

Many thanks.

 

[appnair]

Unless you are tasked with replacing an app I wrote for a client and they are probably unhappy with it this fits exactly like my requirements.I chose to do that in oscript which was perhaps easy for me.
The requirements which was given to me goes like this.The client tags suitable meta data to objects and two of t hose happen to be "Chapter" & "Sub Chapter".Then at the end of the engineering project they run a "livelink metadata search".This would return all the documents for that they called it "Data Book".Upto this is vanilla livelink.Now at this point they want the individual documents of the search to be arranged like you guessed it chapters, sub chapters, and index, appendix etc and they need edit capabilities re-arrangements of chapter headings etc.So I ended up capturing the "search Results" added a button on search called "Data Book".When they click it I show them a weblingo page that allows edit/rename/re-order etc and finally they submit.I take this dataid info and order info into my own tables,create a livelink agent which submits a "DPI File to Adlib"(Adlib connects different mime types into PDF".When the process completes I upload it back to livelink.

If you do not know oscript you can use any industry standard language and so something like this.I will be happy to advice you on your design if you feel like getting my advice

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[jaip112]

Hi appnair,

your project sounds very similar to mine.

I can send you my requirements and perhaps you can help guide me with this?

I am quite new to livelink so am not too familiar with all its ins and outs!

Thanks very much for your help

kind regards

 

[KHuie]

Have you tried using Livelink's built-in Compound Document feature? Not as fancy as what my friend Appnair is recommending so it may not fit the bill, though it might be worth a look-see.

Regards,
klh