Tabular data, instructions and documentation part 2

Tabular data, instructions and documentation part 2

Documentation through publisher tools, e g Affinity Publisher

E g Affinity Publisher makes it easy to design and layout pages.
It is also easy to start with tabular data from a spreadsheet (Excel or CSV-file). The end-result is often a PDF-file.

Operationally, clear documentation is needed for the users to get things done.

The main parts to get the documentation done are:

  • Automation
  • Data Merge
  • CSV-files
  • Place images
  • Quick grids
  • Handling pages, master pages or individual pages
  • importing DWG-files if necessary. If you need drawings.
  • Table of contents and/or bookmark

It is easy to handle a couple of hundreds of records and customize individual records when needed. Often what
is stored in a spreadsheet or/and in an image folder.

Images from Affinity Publisher below:

Place images

Data merge manager

Master and page handling

Pages Panel

Table of contents

Markdown and Deckset

One other fast way to produce documentation is to use Markdown in e g Visual Studio Code and
then produce slides through Deckset.

Tabular data, format, data, part 2, (very much just to use/do it)

Tabular data, format, data, tools, part 2 (very much just to use/do it)

To use the output from tabular data in an organization it needs to be presented,
used in traning and documentation. The points below are often self-evident, but
slows things down if absent. It is practical matter.

  • Format: CSV (spreadsheets), DWG (drawings)
  • Designer programs -Vectorhandling
  • Image-processing.
  • Web or publishing program
  • Markdown combined e g with Mermaid. (diagram)
  • Different import-exports functions in abovementioned programs.
  • the usual office etc programs from Microsoft, Apple or Google etc

Tabular data

Tabular data (first draft)

Tabular data

Apple got a framework for tabular data. . You use tabular data all the time. E g from a spreedsheet or a json file. Whether you render it through a view or reportgenerator dosen't matter.

Using data for properties, quality and financial information.

You often use some kind of maths and/or statistics.

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Screens-layout

It's easy to use view on the phone or laptop. The iphone renders the following using SwiftUI for an Ios-app.
In most cases you use some collection/container.

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E g you see the energy-prices in tabular format on the webb. Which might be interesting this winter with energy shortage.
https://www.nordpoolgroup.com/Market-data1/