Framebook

Revision-safe documentation

Framebook is a revision-safe documentation system. Documents can be edited, reviewed and published via a web-frontend.

The documents are stored centralized on the server in an enhanced Docbook XML-format and are historized.

This allows for flexible output in HTML- and PDF format generated using parameterized XSL-Stylesheets.

Changes in different versions of one document can be traced back and compared to each other.

The workflow of editing, reviewing and publishing, which is bound to user-roles, supports the four-eye-principle and a separation of concerns.

Framebook is a valueable tool for the creation and maintenance of documentations, specifications, protocolls and contracts that are written by one or more parties and need to be reviewed and agreed.

Framebook is well suited for large quantities of highly structured content which is regularly maintained and published.

Multiple authors are able to contribute to the document. The content can be merged easily.

Main Features

• Maintain documentations & specifications
• Revision-safe
• Reuse of documents
• Import of existing documents
• Templates
• Multi-user Workflow
• Corporate Design
• Version Control

Reuse of documents

Texts can be written once and, including them as a refernce, be reused in as many documents as the user likes.

Import of existing documents

Existing documents in formats like docbook or HTML can easily be imported to Framebook. By converting Microsoft Word or Excel files to HTML they also can be imported to Framebook.

Document Templates

Creation of templates to use them as a standard for documentation, protocols or contracts. Definition of format elements (chapters, texts, tables, lists, etc.) the user is allowed to add or modify.

Workflow

Framebook implements a release workflow for documents to support team-work with different responsibilities and competences. Roles like Editor, Reviewer and Publisher are used to organize a team and to improve quality assurance.

Corporate Design

The format and layout of documents is decoupled from the content. The user can concentrate on the content and produce documents that ensure corporate identity because of layout standards.

Version Control

Framebook keeps track of the different versions of a document that are created in the course of time. Version numbers are split into major, minor and history version numbers. It is possible to compare different versions with each other and to set an older version as current version.