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This short introduction shows how a table of information can be transformed into a web of documents on your Confluence wiki using the PDAC1. Although we will show tools of the projectdoc Toolbox, what we present here can also be achieved with other tools. |
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So what are the options to handle these requirements with the tabular approach and what is an alternative? The alternative is single sourcing: Instead of adding lines to a table we see each line as an entity for which we create a new page. Information form these pages, single sources of truth for a particular information like the connection information for a particular team member, can be accessed and compiled in different contexts. Each representation for such a context we call view. So in different contexts you may have different views on the same information.
Let's have a look at how we can engage the additional requirements we have listed above!
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Having each information on a separate page makes it referencablereferable. Think of having a separate page for each line of the original table. You can add any number of views on this information and some information will be collected automatically. We have discussed briefly the many advantages to have a single source for each piece of information. On the other hand compiling a table with a couple of columns is very easy and can be conducted in an ad-hoc manner. Single sourcing requires some form of planning as to decide how such a page should look like by defining a blueprint. This is in contrast to instantly guessing the relevant columns of a table. For many people it is often more cumbersome to create a new page than to add a new line to an existing table. So – as often – there is no right or wrong. |
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