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What is this site?

  • This website is Hornbill's new product documentation website and is currently under development.
  • It is intended that all existing and future public-facing documentation we produce will be available to search, browse and share.
  • Hornbill's current documentation is available at Hornbill Wiki but over time this content will be migrated to this documentation site.
  • Please feel free to have a look around at any time.

Why has Hornbill created this site?

  • Hornbill's products have moved on considerably since we introduced it almost 10 years ago. At the time, the MediaWiki tool was sufficient, but we have outgrown it.
  • Our customers are more enterprise focused and more self-sufficient than ever before, so for 2023 and beyond we have established a new documentation platform and team to drive our documentation initiative forwards.
  • We are aiming to deprecate the use of Hornbill Wiki for most Hornbill related documentation.
  • We want to enable our growing partner network with product resources and information, documentation beyond our Wiki approach is required.
  • We could definitely do with some help, and may even pay for some! If you have domain knowledge and would like to help, please check out our Hornbill Docs Contributor Guide and contact the Hornbill docs team at docs@hornbill.com.

What will this site be good for?

  • Community contribution will be facilitated, encouraged, and most welcome.
  • High quality documentation, will be kept up to date as rapidly as our products evolve.
  • Real-time content search and discovery.
  • Articles organized into books, books into libraries, creating a more natural and logical structure to our documentation.
  • Legacy API documentation and various other documentation sources will all be consolidated into a single unified documentation system.
  • Documentation available in browser as well as printable/viewable as PDF on demand.
  • Personalized documentation experience, allowing dark/light mode, article subscriptions, social media sharing and other useful features.
  • Almost all publicly available documentation on docs.hornbill.com will be open-source and available to fork on GitHub, allowing customers to derive their own custom documentation around Hornbill products should they wish to.

What is the timeline for this site?

  • We have taken the decision to publish and make available early, there is very little content at this time.
  • As and when we have completed/usable documentation, it will be published here.
  • We have a host of additional features we wish to add over time, so please watch this space.
  • We expect most of our existing documentation should be reviewed/migrated to docs.hornbill.com over the coming months.
  • The documentation project will be ongoing, will continue to expand, evolve and improve day-by-day.

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Tags

Introduction Tags are labels that can be added to various parts of Hornbill that facilitate browsing and searching to make things easier to find. Currently Tags are only available in Document Manager for documents but will be used more widely in the future.

Use the Global Search facility at the top of your screen and select Tags from the drop down list to search for the docs you need.

Tag Cloud

Tag Cloud.png Visualize the tags in a Tag Cloud, click through on any tag to see the documents which have been tagged with specific tags

Users with the Docmanager Library User role will be able to add new tags from this view. For more information on the available Document Manager Roles, click here.

Switch the language to display the Tag cloud in the languages enabled on your instance

If different language versions of the tag have not been defined under Tag Management then the tags will be displayed in the default language

Tag Management

Tag Management.png Users with the Docmanager Library User role will be able to Switch from the Tag Cloud view to a list of all Tags

List Attributes

Display name of the tag The Number of Documents carrying the tag is shown in brackets Options

Sort the list of tags by: A-Z Use (the number of documents carrying the tag) Delete a tag by selecting the x next to the tag you wish to remove Edit a Tag - Click on a tag to open it’s properties Change it’s display name Add different language values for the Tag Administration Administrators with the Docmanager Library User role would typically create a range of tags to be used by Co-Workers to standardize their use.

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