Creating a help system with org mode

Creating a help system with org mode

[von Hercynius]

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Hello,

I'm at a business that wants to create an on-line help system in order to
describe all their daily practices. I'm suggesting org mode at the tool.
I'm an org mode beginner, but as I understand I can create knowledge base
entries or issues or help topic entries as individual files. These topic
entry/Help KB files can contain ample tag/keywords in order to effectively
queried by "the agenda" search engine. Am I correct so far? Also, has
anyone tried this before; any examples out there of an on-line help system
with an index/search capability?

Bottorff
North Shore Minnesota

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Re: Creating a help system with org mode

[von Hercynius]

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Actually, I might like to have a "knowledge base" article-style help
system, each entry generated by org mode as a single web page, the search
engine utilizing Google custom search engine just for my help site. Isn't
this what WORG is doing?


On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 2:14 PM, John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Jan 24, 2014 12:59 PM, "von Hercynius" <hercynianforest@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm at a business that wants to create an on-line help system in order
> to describe all their daily practices. I'm suggesting org mode at the tool.
> I'm an org mode beginner, but as I understand I can create knowledge base
> entries or issues or help topic entries as individual files. These topic
> entry/Help KB files can contain ample tag/keywords in order to effectively
> queried by "the agenda" search engine. Am I correct so far? Also, has
> anyone tried this before; any examples out there of an on-line help system
> with an index/search capability?
> >
>
> Sounds like what worg is, at least to some degree (an org based wiki/web
> site).
> - http://orgmode.org/worg/
>
> Stack overflow also comes to mind as something to look at. It supports q &
> a as week as predictive answer suggestions when you go to create a new
> question.
>
> It might help if you submitted a sort of sketch of what you're looking to
> do, such as general structure, if it will be pre-populated only or feature
> user generated content, etc.
>
> That might help others to chime in with suggestions.
>
> John
>
> > Bottorff
> > North Shore Minnesota
>

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Re: Creating a help system with org mode

[John Hendy]

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On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 3:02 PM, von Hercynius <hercynianforest@gmail.com>wrote:

> Actually, I might like to have a "knowledge base" article-style help
> system, each entry generated by org mode as a single web page, the search
> engine utilizing Google custom search engine just for my help site. Isn't
> this what WORG is doing?
>

Yes. You can find out more on these pages:
- http://orgmode.org/worg/worg-setup.html
- http://orgmode.org/worg/worg-git.html

The first discusses how Worg is published, and the second features
instructions for cloning the whole Worg website (well, the .org files that
make it) to your computer so you can explore how it's all laid out.


Best regards,
John


>
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 2:14 PM, John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jan 24, 2014 12:59 PM, "von Hercynius" <hercynianforest@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I'm at a business that wants to create an on-line help system in order
>> to describe all their daily practices. I'm suggesting org mode at the tool.
>> I'm an org mode beginner, but as I understand I can create knowledge base
>> entries or issues or help topic entries as individual files. These topic
>> entry/Help KB files can contain ample tag/keywords in order to effectively
>> queried by "the agenda" search engine. Am I correct so far? Also, has
>> anyone tried this before; any examples out there of an on-line help system
>> with an index/search capability?
>> >
>>
>> Sounds like what worg is, at least to some degree (an org based wiki/web
>> site).
>> - http://orgmode.org/worg/
>>
>> Stack overflow also comes to mind as something to look at. It supports q
>> & a as week as predictive answer suggestions when you go to create a new
>> question.
>>
>> It might help if you submitted a sort of sketch of what you're looking to
>> do, such as general structure, if it will be pre-populated only or feature
>> user generated content, etc.
>>
>> That might help others to chime in with suggestions.
>>
>> John
>>
>> > Bottorff
>> > North Shore Minnesota
>>
>
>

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