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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

  1. Log into FLOSSManuals Write Interface - http://booki.flossmanuals.net/
  2. Navigate to the Mifos Manual - http://booki.flossmanuals.net/mifos-user-manual/_edit/

Create New Manual and Import Existing Chapters Approach

  1. Log into FLOSSManuals Write Interface - http://booki.flossmanuals.net/
  2. 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. 
  3. 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
  4. Your manual now shows up My Manuals. Click edit.
  5. You will now see the typical Booki editing interface.
  6. Let's first create a section that we can import chapters to. I will call them, About This Manual, Administration, and Managing Products.
  7. Click Import Chapter. A Clone Chapter window will pop up. Values in this fields will auto-populate based on existing manuals.  
    1. For book id, begin typing "mifos". Select "mifos-user-manual" when it shows up.
    2. For chapter id, begin typing the names of the chapters you would like to import. Use the existing Mifos Manual to recognize chapter names.
  8. 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. 
    1. 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. 
    2. The chapter will show up in your manual. You must then drag it to the respective section. 
  9. Repeat the same tasks for the other chapters to import. <Show Chapters>
  10. You can rename a chapter by double clicking the title.
  11. 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. 
  12. 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.

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