Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Documentation

2016-05-18 Thread Erik Huelsmann
Hi Paul, On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 12:48 AM, Paul Bolger wrote: > Hi Bob and Erik, > > My apologies for my extended absence... > No need to apologise; welcome back! > If you remember around January we were discussing doing something like > this using an external stylesheet. Help could be added

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Documentation

2016-05-17 Thread Bob Crandell
They all need help of one kind or another. :) I guess we should decide on what order to do them. I suggest we do Preferences and System first then Contacts and HR. After that General Journal and Goods and Services. That should give the new guys a foundation. From there we just work our way do

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Documentation

2016-05-17 Thread Paul Bolger
The first thing to do would be to draw up a list of pages which need help. How's your Git? Mine's not great... On 18 May 2016 at 11:42, Bob Crandell wrote: > Hi Paul, > > I don't know what help I can be but I'm willing to try. What do you > want me to do? > > Thanks > Bob > > On Wed, 2016-05-18

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Documentation

2016-05-17 Thread Bob Crandell
Hi Paul, I don't know what help I can be but I'm willing to try. What do you want me to do? Thanks Bob On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 10:48 +1200, Paul Bolger wrote: > Hi Bob and Erik, > > My apologies for my extended absence... > > If you remember around January we were discussing doing something lik

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Documentation

2016-05-17 Thread Paul Bolger
Hi Bob and Erik, My apologies for my extended absence... If you remember around January we were discussing doing something like this using an external stylesheet. Help could be added in pseudoselectors (before:). Very easy to add, wouldn't mean any application code changes, and also very easy to

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Documentation

2016-05-17 Thread Bob Crandell
That's even better yet. Some software I've seen over time had little pop ups that was to be their help system but those pop ups only repeated the label to the field so they were annoying and useless. On Tue, 2016-05-17 at 09:52 +0200, Erik Huelsmann wrote: > Hi Bob, > > > I hope it's al

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Documentation

2016-05-17 Thread Erik Huelsmann
Hi Bob, I hope it's alright to make a suggestion or two. > Sure is! Thanks for taking the time to mail us your feedback! > For the documentation put a question mark on each screen describing what > the screen is for with examples of what could go in each field. > I like the idea, a lot. Think

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Documentation wiki? Re: Better tools for community cohesion?

2013-07-29 Thread Mikkel Høgh
On 22/07/2013, at 19.34, Chris Bennett wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 05:35:15PM +0200, Iserv-appbox wrote: >> Hi Chris, >> >> I agree with you that mailing lists are probably the best platform for >> discussion at the moment. >> May be mailing lists are a bit old-fashioned, but IMHO they ha

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Documentation wiki? Re: Better tools for community cohesion?

2013-07-22 Thread Chris Bennett
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 05:35:15PM +0200, Iserv-appbox wrote: > Hi Chris, > > I agree with you that mailing lists are probably the best platform for > discussion at the moment. > May be mailing lists are a bit old-fashioned, but IMHO they have some > benefits over forums: > > - Mailing lists in

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Documentation

2009-09-11 Thread Darren Wiebe
Good Day, Have you read the manual located here: http://www.ledgersmb.org/manual That was my lifeline when getting started with LedgerSMB. I've not located a manual for the API but there might be one someplace. -- Darren Wiebe Aleph Communications dar...@aleph-com.net Marvin Dickens wrote:

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] documentation, FAQs et al

2007-09-01 Thread David Tangye
On 9/1/07, Chris Travers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem with most FAQs is focus. The fact that a Q is asked "F" may > > point at a documentation deficiency. > > > > Agreed. BTW, we do accept patches to documentation :-) And plain text is > fine as a format. > Is it possible to check

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] documentation, FAQs et al

2007-09-01 Thread Chris Travers
On 8/26/07, Peter Houppermans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have come across an Ubuntu guide which, frankly, is spot on re. > requirements. > > See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=311029, the only problem is > that I am using Ubuntu 7.04 and thus get rewardded with "Error! No > GlobalDB

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] documentation, FAQs et al

2007-08-27 Thread David Tangye
On 8/27/07, Peter Houppermans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IMHO, FAQ content should be in the category 'miscellaneous' - > anything else ought to make its way back into the relevant docs. > I could not agree more. Hmm, yes I could :-). "Miscellaneous' is usually another way of saying "I'm too du

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] documentation, FAQs et al

2007-08-26 Thread Peter Houppermans
I have come across an Ubuntu guide which, frankly, is spot on re. requirements. See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=311029, the only problem is that I am using Ubuntu 7.04 and thus get rewardded with "Error! No GlobalDBH Configured or Could not Connect" - AFAIK I've done it all correct,