Subject | Starting out. (Was:Re:The Services API - corrections) |
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Author | Aage Johansen |
Post date | 2001-01-23T19:48:47Z |
Art wrote:
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1. I usually read the marketing materials, not the help file.
2. The IBO helpfile is NOT useful to someone starting out. Perhaps the
Getting Started Guide is. Perhaps the sample programs are. But NOT the
helpfile.
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I think that when your average user looks at IBO for the very first time he
(or she) needs something that shows how to get a simple app up an running
STEP-BY-STEP. Like: Put this component here, set those properties so and
so, then place that component and so on.
If a new user struggles for a couple of hours (and don't succeed) in
setting up a master-detail relationship (and he found IBX to be simple),
IBO needs something to help those users.
Maybe GSG provides an answer, but will they spend the USD30? My guess: at
this point - hardly.
After the first app, I think the user won't mind having a few well filled
tabs with components to explore.
Regards,
Aage J.
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...
1. I usually read the marketing materials, not the help file.
2. The IBO helpfile is NOT useful to someone starting out. Perhaps the
Getting Started Guide is. Perhaps the sample programs are. But NOT the
helpfile.
...
-------------------
I think that when your average user looks at IBO for the very first time he
(or she) needs something that shows how to get a simple app up an running
STEP-BY-STEP. Like: Put this component here, set those properties so and
so, then place that component and so on.
If a new user struggles for a couple of hours (and don't succeed) in
setting up a master-detail relationship (and he found IBX to be simple),
IBO needs something to help those users.
Maybe GSG provides an answer, but will they spend the USD30? My guess: at
this point - hardly.
After the first app, I think the user won't mind having a few well filled
tabs with components to explore.
Regards,
Aage J.