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    Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation

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    • JaredBuschJ
      JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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      @scottalanmiller said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

      @JaredBusch that was on my list to look into, that's pretty cool. Any stumbling on a plug in that would let you copy / paste from something like a Word doc?

      I assume and you want this to keep the formatting? Did not look.

      I happen to know another package that can do it, but I have no idea how to aquire it.
      This wiki: http://wiki.eqemulator.org/i?M=Wiki
      Has complete copy/paste and it all just works setup. Unfortunately it is a custom designed piece of software. The author wrote it as part of a larger tool for internal use at his company.

      https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-miles-a9874b60

      Edit: just went in to edit a page and I copy/pasted from a word doc with images and the images did not come in, but the outline did.

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      • Deleted74295D
        Deleted74295 Banned @JaredBusch
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        @JaredBusch said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

        @scottalanmiller said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

        @Breffni-Potter said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

        We're building a product specifically to tackle this. It's going live Spring 2017 hopefully 🙂

        Any early details to share?

        @Breffni-Potter seriously. share some details. I really need to get something online, even if in alpha/beta if it is good.

        At the moment it's Alpha Alpha, Not everything is loaded. Dev work is fun.

        Post Christmas..I'll have betas to hand out to people. For now the tool can only do 1 thing.

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        • NetworkNerdN
          NetworkNerd
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          Is Slack for Teams an option here? I figure you would likely have to use something more than just their free plan.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @NetworkNerd
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            @NetworkNerd said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

            Is Slack for Teams an option here? I figure you would likely have to use something more than just their free plan.

            I've not use Slack for documentation but can't even remotely figure out how it would apply. I use Slack every day but am not aware of it having any documentation interface. And the cost is pretty staggering, but even if the top level plans were free, how does Slack handle documentation?

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            • stacksofplatesS
              stacksofplates @scottalanmiller
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              @scottalanmiller said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

              @NetworkNerd said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

              Is Slack for Teams an option here? I figure you would likely have to use something more than just their free plan.

              I've not use Slack for documentation but can't even remotely figure out how it would apply. I use Slack every day but am not aware of it having any documentation interface. And the cost is pretty staggering, but even if the top level plans were free, how does Slack handle documentation?

              Not sure where it was supposed to be going, but you can add bots that answer questions. And train them on what the answers should be. That would be a ton of work though.

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              • coliverC
                coliver
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                Have you looked at Alfresco? It is a drop in replacement for SharePoint and has some Wiki-esque functionaltiy. It also has some serious access-control abilities as well. Not sure how well it would fit but may be worth it?

                We use Confluence here, expensive but very good for what we are doing.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @stacksofplates
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                  @stacksofplates said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                  @scottalanmiller said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                  @NetworkNerd said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                  Is Slack for Teams an option here? I figure you would likely have to use something more than just their free plan.

                  I've not use Slack for documentation but can't even remotely figure out how it would apply. I use Slack every day but am not aware of it having any documentation interface. And the cost is pretty staggering, but even if the top level plans were free, how does Slack handle documentation?

                  Not sure where it was supposed to be going, but you can add bots that answer questions. And train them on what the answers should be. That would be a ton of work though.

                  Oh gosh, that would be nuts. But an interesting approach.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @coliver
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                    @coliver said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                    Have you looked at Alfresco? It is a drop in replacement for SharePoint and has some Wiki-esque functionaltiy. It also has some serious access-control abilities as well. Not sure how well it would fit but may be worth it?

                    We use Confluence here, expensive but very good for what we are doing.

                    It crossed my mind but we did not actually entertain using it. In reality, we don't like Sharepoint for documentation very much. So replicating it isn't ideal.

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                    • DashrenderD
                      Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                      @scottalanmiller said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                      @coliver said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                      Have you looked at Alfresco? It is a drop in replacement for SharePoint and has some Wiki-esque functionaltiy. It also has some serious access-control abilities as well. Not sure how well it would fit but may be worth it?

                      We use Confluence here, expensive but very good for what we are doing.

                      It crossed my mind but we did not actually entertain using it. In reality, we don't like Sharepoint for documentation very much. So replicating it isn't ideal.

                      And now the truth comes out 😉

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                      • coliverC
                        coliver @scottalanmiller
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                        @scottalanmiller said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                        @coliver said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                        Have you looked at Alfresco? It is a drop in replacement for SharePoint and has some Wiki-esque functionaltiy. It also has some serious access-control abilities as well. Not sure how well it would fit but may be worth it?

                        We use Confluence here, expensive but very good for what we are doing.

                        It crossed my mind but we did not actually entertain using it. In reality, we don't like Sharepoint for documentation very much. So replicating it isn't ideal.

                        Are there other pieces to Sharepoint you do like? Seems like the built in Wiki may be a viable option.

                        I wonder if something built on top of NextCloud and LibreOffice Online would work for this?

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                        • DashrenderD
                          Dashrender
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                          the formatting in Wikis is such a PITA to me that I would hate using them for documentation for clients. that's just me though.

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                          • IRJI
                            IRJ
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                            Wordpress........

                            angry mob assemblies

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                              last edited by

                              @Dashrender said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                              the formatting in Wikis is such a PITA to me that I would hate using them for documentation for clients. that's just me though.

                              Same formatting as NodeBB

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @coliver
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                                @coliver said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                                @scottalanmiller said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                                @coliver said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                                Have you looked at Alfresco? It is a drop in replacement for SharePoint and has some Wiki-esque functionaltiy. It also has some serious access-control abilities as well. Not sure how well it would fit but may be worth it?

                                We use Confluence here, expensive but very good for what we are doing.

                                It crossed my mind but we did not actually entertain using it. In reality, we don't like Sharepoint for documentation very much. So replicating it isn't ideal.

                                Are there other pieces to Sharepoint you do like? Seems like the built in Wiki may be a viable option.

                                I wonder if something built on top of NextCloud and LibreOffice Online would work for this?

                                The build in wiki cannot handle formatting. It's the worst wiki I know. It's okay for general text. But need to store code or passwords and it falls apart. It's like Word, full of formatting problems.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                                  @Dashrender said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                                  @scottalanmiller said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                                  @coliver said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                                  Have you looked at Alfresco? It is a drop in replacement for SharePoint and has some Wiki-esque functionaltiy. It also has some serious access-control abilities as well. Not sure how well it would fit but may be worth it?

                                  We use Confluence here, expensive but very good for what we are doing.

                                  It crossed my mind but we did not actually entertain using it. In reality, we don't like Sharepoint for documentation very much. So replicating it isn't ideal.

                                  And now the truth comes out 😉

                                  It was never ideal. Weakest wiki we've ever tried combined with the easily abused document repository.

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                                  • DashrenderD
                                    Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                                    @scottalanmiller said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                                    @Dashrender said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                                    the formatting in Wikis is such a PITA to me that I would hate using them for documentation for clients. that's just me though.

                                    Same formatting as NodeBB

                                    Like that's any better 😞

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                                    • JaredBuschJ
                                      JaredBusch @Dashrender
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                                      @Dashrender said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                                      @scottalanmiller said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                                      @Dashrender said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                                      the formatting in Wikis is such a PITA to me that I would hate using them for documentation for clients. that's just me though.

                                      Same formatting as NodeBB

                                      Like that's any better 😞

                                      Markdown too hard for you?

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                                      • DashrenderD
                                        Dashrender @JaredBusch
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                                        @JaredBusch said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                                        @Dashrender said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                                        @Dashrender said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                                        the formatting in Wikis is such a PITA to me that I would hate using them for documentation for clients. that's just me though.

                                        Same formatting as NodeBB

                                        Like that's any better 😞

                                        Markdown too hard for you?

                                        Don't you know it! I need WYSIWYG. 😛

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                                          @Dashrender said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                                          @JaredBusch said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                                          @Dashrender said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                                          @scottalanmiller said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                                          @Dashrender said in Ideas for ITSP and MSP Internal and Customer Documentation:

                                          the formatting in Wikis is such a PITA to me that I would hate using them for documentation for clients. that's just me though.

                                          Same formatting as NodeBB

                                          Like that's any better 😞

                                          Markdown too hard for you?

                                          Don't you know it! I need WYSIWYG. 😛

                                          That's what Sharepoint tries to do and messes everything up.

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                                          • jmooreJ
                                            jmoore
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                                            I know this topic is quite old so my apologies. Whatever came of this though? I am looking for something at work to improve what we have, which is not really much. We use text files, word files, and spreadsheets for example and we need to do much better.

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