RE: Question concerning product customization and documentation

Subject: RE: Question concerning product customization and documentation
From: "Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:19:56 -0500


"Bill Swallow" <wswallow -at- nycap -dot- rr -dot- com> wrote:

>Document the product as it stands before the customizations are made.

If the developers have been clever in allowing for the customizations (incorporating text strings in a DLL or a database table, for example), it should be possible to exploit those same resources when constructing the documentation, thus automating the customization of the docs.

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