Wiki Update: Palettes

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Submitted for your review, comment, and/or revision, the following Wiki article has been updated:

Palettes

Primary Changes:

  1. Reorganized
  2. Added info to Macro Group Palettes from the "How Do I" page
  3. Add screenshots
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Looks good. I made a few trivial edits. Thanks.

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Why did you remove my "See Also" to Forum Palettes tag?

Palettes are a complex subject, and this provides a great resource for those who need more examples and ideas.

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Because it is not appropriate in the Manual section, which also generates the PDF for the manual.

There are no See Also sections in those pages. Definitely not for just a search the forum link. Even the other link to the forum I nearly deleted, but left it as a special case.

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I hope you remember that I warned you against having two sets of pages in the Wiki.
Having the same subject on two different pages is either double the work, or one is always wrong/out of date. Database management 101.

Using a PDF for a dynamic document like the KM wiki makes no sense to me. Yes I know some people think they want it, but do they know they are likely to be getting out of date info?

PDFs are good/OK for documents that you update just a few times a year, at most.

So, I suggest that you take all of the improvements I made to the "manual" pages and copy them to the non-manual pages. Going forward I'm not going to touch "manual" pages. That's on you.

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No problem - you are never under any obligation to make any changes to the wiki.

Some people - actually, lots of people - really want the PDF. The pdf is downloaded roughly 50 times per day. I don't know why, but that's the world I live in. So yes, the manual section is important, and has to have a restricted structure, different from the reference material in most of the rest of the wiki.

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And how many times a day is the Wiki accessed?

Sorry, but 50/day is hard to believe, unless you are getting 50 new users/day.
I think it is a reflex action. Most apps don't have a great Wiki like KM does, and the so called "Help" provided in the Help menu is usually terrible. So downloading a PDF is really needed for most apps.

I hope you have a link to the Wiki in the KM PDF, so users can quickly get the latest info.