Thanks to everybody who responded to our poll. It has given us some options to consider. Here are the results:
 

Question #1: What content do you put on the custom Main Menu landing page (below the Main toolbar when you start up TMS)? 

Link to user documentation/style guide (6 institutions)
Help/Support contacts/phone numbers (3 institutions)
Link to online catalogue (3 institutions)
Link to IT Help (2 institutions)
Link to Request Art Movement Site (1 institution)
Text legend for Main Menu buttons (1 institution)
Link to Confidential Collection Information Policy (1 institution)
Artwork of the Day (1 institution)
External links (Getty Vocabs, Library of Congress Name Authority File; Oxford Art Online; Chicago Manual of Style Online) (1 institution)
eMuseum (embedded page) (1 institution)


Question #2: What applications do you use to create custom user documentation?

SharePoint (3 institutions)  

also: "but looking for a better tool like MadCap Flare or RoboHelp"
also: "the problem is that you have to log on , so you just see the SharePoint log-in page and not the page itself."
PDF documents on Intranet (3 institutions)
MS Word (2 institutions)

also: "Looking into DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture)" (1 institution)
Excel (1 institution)
Wiki (1 institution)
 
 
Becka Cooling
Graduate Intern
Collection Information and Access
The J. Paul Getty Museum
310-440-7147
( tel:3104407147) 

 

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