topic Re: I've been using Stories to build User Guides and Help pages in App Development

I've been using Stories to build User Guides and Help pages

Thu, 22 Oct 2015 21:29:13 GMT

Very often a dashboard and its charts need some sort of explanation. I've found that the Stories feature provides a nice clean means of providing that information. Simply take a Snapshot of a chart and it can be pasted into a Story page. Then add text, arrows, etc. to provide details such as the datasource, filtering, whatever.

Message was edited by: Dan Hogan Added image of example Story page as User Guide.

Re: I've been using Stories to build User Guides and Help pages

Gysbert_Wassenaar — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 05:02:51 GMT

Great idea! Thanks for sharing this with us.

Re: I've been using Stories to build User Guides and Help pages

Michael_Tarallo — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 12:27:22 GMT

Hi Dan,

Thanks for sharing this with the community. We appreciate ideas and input such as this. If you can, please post a screenshot / example with your post (you should be able to edit the original) - that way our members can get some ideas on how you use them. I recall that Qlik, did something similar with its initial release of Qlik Sense 1.1 and included an app with a story that contained steps on creating your first visualization, but it overlapped with our document services initiatives, so I believe they stopped doing that,

Keep the great information flowing, we are glad to have you as a member.

Regards,

Mike Tarallo

Qlik

Re: I've been using Stories to build User Guides and Help pages

Michael_Tarallo — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 18:11:01 GMT

I featured this post - nice work Dan thanks for your contribution.

Re: I've been using Stories to build User Guides and Help pages

reddy-s — Fri, 25 Dec 2015 16:26:59 GMT

Hi Dan,

Your post has been very handy. Thank you !

Re: I've been using Stories to build User Guides and Help pages

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:49:03 GMT

Hi Dan

We have been considering do this as well, have you received any feedback from your users as to how easy they find the stories to use?

Cheers

Bella

Re: I've been using Stories to build User Guides and Help pages

ogster1974 — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 10:58:18 GMT

Nice Idea Dan. I'd been getting feedback from users on the need for how to guides which id created a Word/PDF document for distribution. This will not only give users a quick reference point inside the App but also ideas on how they can layout their own user stories.

Re: I've been using Stories to build User Guides and Help pages

Mon, 11 Jan 2016 20:49:07 GMT

Bella,

No useful feedback. My users are just beginning to use these reports, so I expect there may be feedback in the near future.

I found that the navigation from one Story page to the next/previous isn’t obvious as the < > arrows are hidden until you mouse-over them, and getting back to the Sheets from the Story also isn’t obvious.

Dan