Updating the ScreenSteps Manual for version 2.0.3
The other day I posted about updating the ScreenSteps Live online manual. Today we have to update our Screensteps 2 manual. This update to ScreenSteps actually has a lot of changes but our workflow is going to be a little different so I thought it would be an interesting comparison to what we did with the ScreenSteps Live manual.
We are getting started at about 9 am.
First off, there are a lot more lessons to update so Trevor is going to be helping me. We have basically divided up the material we need to cover and are updating the lessons. The only problem is that we both have home offices so we aren't working "together". If you have used ScreenSteps at all you might wonder - don't we have to work off of the same Library file?
Well, no. Since the topic is dynamically assembled on ScreenSteps Live we can do that all there. I have most of the original lessons on my computer so I will be updating those. Trevor is going to be creating new lessons that apply to version 2.0.3.
To start with, we created a new topic called "ScreenSteps 2.0.3″ on our ScreenSteps Live site. I then created sections to match the layout of the current ScreenSteps 2 manual ("Sections" are just groupings of lessons so getting the groupings laid out helps us organize our workflow a little better). ScreenSteps will let us post directly into these sections. So while Trevor is creating new lessons I am going through and updating the old ones.
10:30 am - I have had a few interruptions to take care of issues not related to this manual but, besides that, things are going pretty smoothly on my end. The updates have been more minor than I expected. Trevor on the other hand is having the same experience that I had yesterday. He is finding lots of little bugs and fixing them. This is because he is documenting all of the new features. So he still doesn't have his first lesson created.
12:20 pm - My part is done. I updated somewhere around 30 lessons. Trevor still needs to post lessons on the new features but he is still trying to resolve a bug that he discovered.
It is now a couple of days later and we are finally just about ready for release. Last night we updated the manual with a few lessons on some of the new features. What was cool is that Trevor was in Salt Lake City and I was sitting here in Virginia and we were very easily able to collaborate on the manual. He posted his lessons, I posted mine. Once we make 2.0.3 live we will just flip a switch and the manual will be live.