PFLOSSManuals offers up the capability of creating a completely tailored instance of the Mifos user manual - using the base manual as your starting point, you can rewrite and recompose each chapter to create a MFI-specific user manual. This user manual can then be generated as a PDF, saved as HTML output, or even printed as a book.
Follow these steps to create your own user manual. You can do it one of two ways - 1) cloning the entire manual and then editing it or 2) create a new manual and then import individual chapters from the original Mifos manual.
Clone Manual Approach
- Log into FLOSSManuals Write Interface - http://booki.flossmanuals.net/
- Navigate to the Mifos Manual - http://booki.flossmanuals.net/mifos-user-manual/_edit/
Create New Manual and Import Existing Chapters Approach
- Log into FLOSSManuals Write Interface - http://booki.flossmanuals.net/
- Open in a separate tab or window, the existing Mifos Manual - http://booki.flossmanuals.net/mifos-user-manual/_edit/. You will use this to reference which chapters to import.
- Click My Manuals. From there, enter the title for your new manual (you can select license or to hide from others initially) and click create
- Your manual now shows up My Manuals. Click edit.
- You will now see the typical Booki editing interface.
- Let's first create a section that we can import chapters to. I will call them, About This Manual, Administration, and Managing Products.
- Click Import Chapter. A Clone Chapter window will pop up. Values in this fields will auto-populate based on existing manuals.
- For book id, begin typing "mifos". Select "mifos-user-manual" when it shows up.
- For chapter id, begin typing the names of the chapters you would like to import. Use the existing Mifos Manual to recognize chapter names.
- For example, I want to import several of the chapters from the Introduction Section of the Mifos User Manual. I want to import the first three chapters.
- The first chapter is "Welcome to Mifos". I begin by typing "welcome" and then select the chapter. You can optionally rename the chapter if you'd like. Click clone chapter.
- The chapter will show up in your manual. You must then drag it to the respective section.
- Repeat the same tasks for the other chapters to import. <Show Chapters>
- You can rename a chapter by double clicking the title.
- To edit a chapter, simply click edit. A WYSIWYG editor will display the full cloned chapter which you can edit according to the needs of the MFI.
- To keep this example simple, I won't make any edits to chapter and will skip to publishing a manual.
Exporting a Manual
You have the ability to export this manual as a PDF, ePub format, or OpenOffice format.
Let's try PDF.