Activity for Monica Cellio
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A: How do we get Flare to stop modifying .gitignore? I received a response from Flare's technical support. There was a bug in Flare's git integration in some older versions (at least 2019r2; not sure how much farther back). This bug was fixed in Flare 2020, but the result is that if people are using mixed versions, as we are, then there's a tug of wa... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #280721 |
File shares become write-only kitchen junk drawers, in my experience -- it's easy to add stuff but harder to find and organize it, and actually *maintaining* it is even harder. Jira would be an improvement for you because of the integration with Confluence, which you're already using. For example, ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #280721 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: What are some ways to encourage team members to contribute and maintain a centralized wiki? There's no quick or complete fix, but the following things have worked for me. Plant the seeds early First, involve those new hires. When everything is new to them, you are in a better position to plant "culture" seeds. Maybe your old-timers have gotten used to not documenting anything, but t... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #280651 |
@Olin thanks for the debugging tip! I hadn't thought of that. (more) |
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Post edited: source-control is now the parent tag of git so don't need both (this question is specifically about git) |
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| Edit | Post #280651 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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How do we get Flare to stop modifying .gitignore? We use Madcap Flare for our documentation, and the project is checked into git. (In case this matters, this is a locally-hosted git server, not GitHub.) The project uses a .gitignore file to avert commits of output files and assorted Flare byproducts that don't belong in source control. We do ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #280515 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Technical Writer Skill Set Some core skills for a technical writer are: - Ability to communicate effectively in writing. - Ability to understand the subject matter (what you're documenting) from the user's perspective, including the user's needs. - Ability to understand the subject matter enough to reason about its behavi... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #280477 | Question closed | — | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280477 |
Hello and welcome to Writing Codidact! This question is very broad so I'm putting it on hold for now. Can you edit to describe what problems you're running into? We're much better at solving specific problems than disseminating general hints. Every situation is a little different, so please tell ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279891 |
For feedback before submitting elsewhere for publication, need to consider that some publishers won't accept anything that's been "previously published". We can restrict visibility of a category to people with accounts to keep stuff out of Google, but it'd mean you wouldn't be able to usefully share... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #279085 |
Oh right; there's a separate feature request about keyboard shortcuts for editing, not yet implemented. Sorry for my confusion. Could you file a bug report on any meta about the category issue @celtschk? Thanks. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #279085 |
Oh whoops -- I thought we had a help topic about that, but I guess not. @celtschk see https://meta.codidact.com/questions/276697. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #279085 |
True, and what I do normally anyway (just type the Markdown links) -- for me that's faster than going through a GUI, because I'm almost always inserting the links as I compose. But if somebody is using keyboard shortcuts to navigate the GUI, and that works in general but not in this specific case, t... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #279078 |
Welcome back! It's good to see you here again. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279085 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Finishing link entry with enter sends the post instead That's a bug, yes. :-( Thanks for the report. As a workaround, if you choose[^1] the "insert" button instead of using "enter", it inserts the link into the markdown and puts you back in the editor. (I don't know if we have good-enough support for keyboard-only users to choose that button. If yo... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #279079 |
Ooh, looking to the time *before* ubiquitous mice for hints -- nice! (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279019 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: How can we revitalize our community? This suggestion grew out of a comment discussion on another answer. I'm posting it separately so it can be voted on. As discussed in other answers, straight copies of content from Somewhere Else are almost certainly hurting SEO and, in volume, can give a negative impression -- we look like a copy... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278987 |
@MarkBaker I agree with that assessment, but had previously perceived you to oppose deleting imported content. Thanks for clearing that up. Speaking for myself, I do have a few imported posts that I went on to *improve*, and I want to give them a new life here, but since I've claimed them they no l... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278987 |
@MarkBaker, are you suggesting we delete the imports (if we haven't improved them; I know some have been edited)? Not opposed, just asking for clarification. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278987 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: How can we revitalize our community? I wonder if segregating content that was imported and not further improved would help. Create a new category, maybe called "Archive", and move there any post that hasn't had any modifications post-import. This means those of us who want to preserve our bodies of work can, but people visiting the Q&... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278891 |
We use italics for variables. In my first example, schema and table-name are variables and would be italicized, but "if not exists" is literal text that is optional. (We do try to include examples on all our reference pages too. We're trying to support both the "just show me the formal syntax" re... (more) |
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Post edited: switched gears on the first example halfway through and left bogus SQL; I realize it's just an example but still... |
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| Edit | Post #278883 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Syntax summaries use brackets for optional elements; how do I represent literal brackets in a way readers will understand? In our documentation of SQL functions and statements, we include a BNF-style syntax summary. As is conventional, we indicate optional elements in square brackets, like this: CREATE [IF NOT EXISTS] TABLE [schema.]table-name (column-definition[,...]) ... There's more to it, but that's the id... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278810 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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How can we revitalize our community? We've had low activity on our community for a while. Low activity means people visit less often, which means lower activity because they're not here asking and answering... iterate. We have ads active Somewhere Else, but without activity, people who follow them are unlikely to stick around. We s... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |