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Sugar Documentation | SugarCRM - Commercial Open Source CRM. Product documentation to get you started with Sugar Ultimate, Sugar Enterprise, Sugar Corporate, Sugar Professional, Sugar Community Edition, as well as Sugar plug-ins and extensions are listed below. You will also find helpful materials in our Training section. Editions The Sugar application is available in five different editions, each with additional functionality. Sugar Community Edition is the base level edition, with Sugar Professional, Sugar Corporate, Sugar Enterprise, and Sugar Ultimate each adding more capabilities.

For a comparison of the editions, check out Sugar Editions & Pricing. Mobile Accessing your Sugar application on your smartphone is easy with Sugar Mobile. Plug-ins You want your customer information wherever you are working. Developer Guide Sugar is designed to be configured and extended by administrators and developers. Appendix A. A brief introduction to XSL. XSL is both a transformation language and a formatting language. The XSLT transformation part lets you scan through a document's structure and rearrange its content any way you like.

You can write out the content using a different set of XML tags, and generate text as needed. For example, you can scan through a document to locate all headings and then insert a generated table of contents at the beginning of the document, at the same time writing out the content marked up as HTML. XSL is also a rich formatting language, letting you apply typesetting controls to all components of your output.

With a good formatting back end, it is capable of producing high quality printed pages. An XSL stylesheet is written using XML syntax, and is itself a well-formed XML document. The following are examples of a simple XSL stylesheet applied to a simple XML file to generate HTML output. XSL is a template language, not a procedural language. Take the DocBook <para> paragraph element as an example. Why Most Software User Assistance Help is Terrible and What to do About it.

As an end user, I’ve worked with a lot of software and most of the software user assistance is far from great. Yep, I said it. And it’s true, Mostly. I realize this article isn’t going to gain me any more friends. I’m okay with it. But before you pass final judgment, please read on. I’m trying to help. Why are most of the software user assistance help systems so bad? Take the Microsoft For me, Clippy proactively offered letter-writing help regardless of how many times I clicked “Just type the letter without help.”

Worse, the constant Clippy tips just weren’t helpful. True artificial intelligence doesn’t exist today and may never be able to replicate a human social experience. So why do we constantly try to use computers to do a human’s job? So what am I talking about? Let me start with an example. The problem is that you don’t really know if the user assistance is good or not. I use Microsoft Outlook a lot. I bet Microsoft doesn’t know that I am searching for it either. Business-in-a-Box™ | The World's #1 Business Documents Templates Software! TV | Channels. Seek Omega. I'd Rather Be Writing | The Latest Trends in Technical Communication.

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