Writing Software Help with Drupal - good idea?

By littlebiker on 25 Oct 2005 at 13:26 UTC

I would like to use a web-based to maintain our Software Documentation. The advantages we need is multiple people writing and modifying/updating the documentation. In other words, a tool which can help us collaborate.

OUTPUT: We would need the following output of the content.

1. Some module should let us create a TOC style like hyper-linked help file. All files should be statics HTML.
2. OPTIONAL: Generate a very similar PHP output.
3. We can have a DB driven online version of the same help. But (1) would ship with the product. so needs to be a Flat HTML.

Has anyone done this before? Is drupal rite? are there modules available? would be a quick to get what I need? I have used MT and WordPress before. Haven't really spent time figuring out if they can do that but thought drupal was more likely to support such a thing.

Please advice.

Comments

Drupal does not generate

sepeck commented 25 October 2005 at 14:44

Drupal does not generate html files. You can use the book module and export the contents.

As for collaboration and multiple edits: http://wiki.bryght.com/wiki/drupalwikirecipe

4.7 will do this better then 4.6.

-sp
---------
Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain

-Steven Peck
---------
Test site, always start with a test site.
_{Drupal Best Practices Guide}

This sounds like something

Anonymous (not verified) commented 26 October 2005 at 00:52

This sounds like something that might be better served by a plain old wiki. Drupal is a great framework to build on, but if all you need is a wiki, well, use a wiki :)

We use dokuwiki (http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki) for this sort of function, it's simple and clean and works well for collaberating. It doesn't quite meet your html requirement, but it does store wiki pages as plain text rather than in a database.