[Framers] Question About Revision History.

[TW Smith]

With documentation for a product that has a shelf life of 10-20 years, it's
a good idea to notify the customer of a revision because old versions of
PDFs always surface when you least expect it, and to no good end.

On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 12:23 PM Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> One of my former employers used it as a way to let readers know how
> information had changed because the document was very long and very
> technical (installing enterprise-level software). I'm not sure how much it
> helped overall, but at least if, say, what was required of the customer to
> have for hardware or already-installed software had changed, they had an
> alert to pay extra attention to that. Or if how outside-party software had
> to be configured to work with our software changed, they'd have an alert on
> that, too.
>
> We used change bars in the text itself, but that didn't tell customers HOW
> things had changed, only that they had. The revision history told them how,
> which told them what to pay attention to.
>
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 11:50 AM <ian.proudfoot at itp-x.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Rick,
> > Revision history is often more of a regulatory requirement than a
> > nice-to-have feature. If there are no external rules that say you must
> have
> > it, then what purpose would it serve? Maybe just to show that the
> document
> > does get updated from time-to-time?
> >
> > Ian Proudfoot
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Framers <framers-bounces+ian.proudfoot=
> > itp-x.co.uk at lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of Richard Melanson
> > Sent: 26 November 2019 16:20
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> > Subject: [Framers] Question About Revision History.
> >
> > Somewhat off topic, what does everyone think about not having a revision
> > history in user manuals. My company has decided they do not want this in
> > any customer facing docs.
> >
> > Thank you for your replies.
> >
> > Rick
> >
> > Richard Melanson
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