Documentation Available
Wacs Release 1.0.1 (July 2022) |
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| Our updated 93-page illustrated User Guide book which provides an
excellent introduction to using WACS is available in the following forms:
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| Documentation Index |
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User Guide
- User Guide - Twelth edition: an 93 page book with over 100
illustrations now updated for WACS 1.0.1 covering the updates to the
icon editor, the more new interconnection features and newer
screenshots from our demo site.
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Installation Guide
- Installation Guide - Eleventh edition - a 92 page book describing
installation and troubleshooting techniques for WACS. This version includes a
lot of new content about using PostgreSQL which after fifteen years of using
Oracle becomes our new prime development platform.
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Administration Guide
- Administration Guide - Eleventh Edition - now a 140 page book,
extensively illustrated, describing how to administer a Wacs collection.
After an extensive re-write for the seventh edition, there are just minor
updates to this one.
- HTML - one big page
- HTML - multiple pages
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Configuration Guide
- Configuration Guide - Eleventh Edition - a 83 page book describing
all the XML-based WACS configuration files and how to use them. Minor updates
in this edition.
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Programming Guide
- Programming Guide - Now in it's twelth edition, a 186 page book
with many illustrations containing both tutorial and reference sections.
Very minor updates in this edition as much of the work in Wacs 1.0.1
centered on media settings and improving the PostgreSQL support.
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Manual Pages Collection
- Manual Pages Collection - Seventh Edition - Now running to 19
pages book that gathers together the manual pages for the various command
line utility programs available for WACS. New in this edition is the man
page for the new wacssettingsout command which exports media settings.
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| Documentation News |
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| Documentation for WACS 1.0.1 New Available:
WACS 1.0.1 was released on July 14th, 2022 complete with full documentation
for this maintenance release. After the major work on Wacs 1.0.0, this
release provides improved media handling and downloaded set import support,
and rebases our development system to use PostgreSQL instead of Oracle.
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| VISIT OUR DEMO SITE! ITS FREE!:
While it's not really a documentation issue, the our FREE WACS
demonstration site, pinkmetallic.com
finally allows people to get a feel for how WACS works without having to
go through the whole process of installing the software.
This really should make learning to use WACS a whole lot easier. |
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| Documentation
Overview |
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| We believe that to encourage adoption of Wacs and to ensure a
good reputation for reliability and quality, we need people to understand
how to get the best out of it. To this end, we've put a lot of effort into
creating really world class documentation for it. We hope the various guides
and manuals we've prepared will help you to understand it and use it
effectively.
Come take a look - and remember, we value your feedback.
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