Initial Release Article posted July 12, 2004 on mods.PostNuke.com

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I. Introduction

labDocument is a document creation, collaboration, and management tool. Verbiage intended for use as static printed material can be built online by multiple users simultaneously. Each document contains one or more chapters/sections. Each of these contains one or more pieces of block content that can be reordered using the labDocument GUI.

This module is meant to perform as a stripped down version of Content Express, with no innate word processing GUI, no internal image support, and no hyper-dynamic menu generator. labDocument does, however, offer the unique capability to re-order chapter verbiage without having to edit text, thus allowing simultaneous collaboration between users even within the same chapter, if need be.

labDocument was written to facilitate creation of legal forms and contracts based on roughly categorized components of verbiage. Next phase plans include more printable page options that support site specific CSS, and company letterhead creation.

In order to use labDocument, it must be installed on a web server that is running PHP4 and mySQL. Admin access to the website is required in order to complete the installation, activation, and configuration of labDocument.

II. Installation and Activation

Unzip the labDocument module directory to your site's modules folder (./modules/labDocument/*.*).
Go to your site's module adminarea(./index.php?module=Modules&type=admin) and click 'Regenerate'.
Scroll down to the listing for labDocument and click 'Initialize'.
Scroll down to the listing for labDocument and click 'Activate'.