David, we at extragroup use Confluence for several years now and apart from intermittent glitches we are very happy with it. It's our go to product for internal and external documentation. We also use it to prepare meetings, do brainstorming in a team and many other things.
We love the excellent full text search, the ability to control access rights by user and its ease of use. It's great you can fav pages, comment, or watch changes. One of the big pluses for all the people who still need to distribute PDF-based documents is that you can export complete spaces (a confluence wiki can consist of several distinct sub wikis called spaces) as one big PDF dcoument with pictures and all. The manual of our 4D-based product profacto is published in Confluence: http://profacto.extragroup.de:8090/display/handbuch/Module The hierarchical sidebar makes it really easy to navigate content the user is roughly familiar with. In addition, we use JIRA. The Kanban view allows us to track our issues from creation to release. Since we use JIRA consequently and track every improvement and the rare :-) bug in profacto, product quality has dramatically improved. Tilman ---- extragroup GmbH Pottkamp 19 48149 Münster Germany Mobil: +49 178 721 5210 (Skype: TilmanHaerdle) Fax: +49 251 39089-10 WWW: http://www.extragroup.de Email: tilman.haer...@extragroup.de Geschäftsführer: Lars Busch Registergericht: Amtsgericht Münster / HRB: 5624 Steuer Nr.: 337/5903/0421 - UstID: DE 204607841 Vectorworks interiorcad - profacto Am 13.07.2017 um 03:55 schrieb David Adams via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com<mailto:4d_tech@lists.4d.com>>: I've tried a few different wiki packages down the years, sometimes setting them up from scratch and sometimes using one someone else configured. At the moment I'm using Atlassian's Confluence as set up by someone else. It's great. As I'm working along, figuring things out I can put down some notes to refer back to. If I have to figure out some kind of algorithm that's new to me (or long forgotten), I can write it up for others in a team setting. (I've been doing a bunch of interval math lately which I thought I hated. I don't hate it, I just didn't know where to look for the right information.) I understand that a lot of people don't like writing and that it's a chore. As I just heard it put from someone (in voice mail) "Because I hate writing. Period." Confluence (or similar) isn't the product for people in this camp ;-) But if you do find it helpful to write things down in a place that you can find them latter, I'm really pleased with Confluence. A couple of notes: * There are only a handful of styles and formatting options. A bit frustrating for someone like me who misses character-level stylesheets...but then you end up wasting very little time on formatting. (At times, I make myself write in BBEdit so that I don't get caught up in pointless tweaking too early.) After using Confluence's options for a few days I stopped and noticed, 'Hey! Everything looks great!" They've saved me from wasting time and from doing hideous things ;-) * Overall, I've probably spent 30-45 minutes figuring out various features and where options are. The hardest was figuring out where attachments are organized. (There's a little paperclip symbol that's only visible when you're not editing. A bit weird, but not a big deal.) If anyone has used Confluence and/or anything else and wants to post some comparisons (now or six months from now, I'll still be interested), please do. ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
