RE: APIs: Where are the @#$% manuals?

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Interesting.  I too was videotaped in Rochester when I migrated Notes in 
that center.

As I stated before, I don't think their search engine could be much better 
than that hit on searching for API in the V5R2 books.

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 





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I have actually gone to Rochester as a customer and participated in User
Design Center sessions with the InfoCenter development team...

They presented me with a particular InfoCenter design and then ask me to
find certain pieces information. As I struggled to find it, they took all
kinds of notes and even video taped me! The designs I worked with were not
very intuitive, as my struggling showed them.

They once gave me a bunch of cards with topics on them, and asked me to
build an InfoCenter structure.... That was interesting. It made me really
understand what a challenge it is to organize this mountain of information
into something easy to browse through. 

After these exercises, I always shared this thought with them... "It isn't
as important how you organize the information in InfoCenter, as it is to
provides a 1st class search engine to find what you want." 

Browsing through a hierarchical tree structure looking for information is
way too confusing and time consuming. 

When a top notch search engine like "Google" or Copernic" is incorporated
into InfoCenter, then it will become an information center we will all 
want
to use.

Kenneth 

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From: Justin C. Haase [mailto:JHaase@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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