KnowledgeTree Blog

Order in ‘Chaos’

I’m Carolyn … the technical writer for KnowledgeTree - have been for a while now, so it’s ironic that this is my first blog. I guess that’s because I’ve been busy… busy… busy, documenting and documenting.
Till now, I was a single repository type of gal - a traditional, conservative type, ever loyal to the ‘find it in the Manual’ maxim, but I’m alright now. I’ve finally conceded, and starting putting some of [my] stuff up on the KnowledgeTree Wiki and elsewhere - big step for someone paranoid about having to update content in several places. Do you realize you no longer have just one number and one address (and I’m not talking about the folk with beach houses and apartments in 3 cities all at once). Every day someone gives you the opportunity to own a new number, and a new address. “Remember this link and that number, and these passwords..”, and let’s not get in to your several login names.

Sounds like chaos! Well it is - except that ‘chaos’ is good. Chaos is normal. Our planet and (probably) beyond teams with life, which is dynamic and cyclical and creates newness as revolution becomes evolution. The chaotic world is a continuously changing and dynamically updated state that is informed and formed out of the interaction of a myriad nodes of input, each self-aware and self-centered, and yet intimately intertwined in a bigger creative process. Open Source embodies this non-linear, non static world. Open Source software is the incredible newness that happens on the edge of chaos.

Okay, I finally justified why I can now leave the idea of a non-chaotic documentation set for KnowledgeTree - change is not only as good as a holiday, it is a holiday.

So what’s new on the Wiki?

KnowledgeTree Document Workflow Integration (DWI) Service User Guide

KnowledgeTree Document Workflow Integration (DWI) Service XML Schema

KnowledgeTree Features Summary

A Plugins Index - including functional descriptions

And … did you know WebDAV is now Open Source? Here are the Instructions for Configuring WebDAV on KnowledgeTree Open Source

Online Help for KnowledgeTree at http://docs.knowledgetree.com/
In true chaos spirit, the KnowledgeTree documentation now has a beach house. The traditional documentation set is always updated and available in PDF format at SourceForge, but we wanted to provide the option to view information on the fly. So check out docs.knowledgetree.com - the traditional document set (User, Admin, Install, and other Guides) are available for Online Viewing, or you can download the PDF versions. This is a work in progress since I’m currently updating the documentation for KnowledgeTree 3.4, which promises to be bigger and better (especially better) as always!
This site also includes a few useful Tutorials for developers, and two new White Papers that provide a concise presentation of all the KnowledgeTree Interfaces, from an Integration perspective, and from the Document Import perspective.

enjoy!