Questions tagged [documentation-generator]
Software to assist in the generation of documentation.
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Tool to create documentation from a SQL query
At my company we have a project where we write select SQL queries on different financial software databases to insert into a pre-designed database table we created.
An example query would be:
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Software to combine documentation comments from multiple IDEs
I have a product for three different platforms, Windows, Android and iOS, and I'm looking for a program or a group of programs to combine and format their documentation comments. The languages that ...
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Visual Studio 2017 typescript documentation tool
I updated my Visual Studio to the 2017 version and started a new TypeScript project.
Let's say I have a class with 100 lines of code. Now I want to auto create the documantation for my class. I know ...
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How would you move from Pandoc to Confluence?
We are evaluating moving from a Pandoc markdown generated website to Confluence for internal technical documentation - do you have any experience with such a migration?
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I need a suggestion for a small yet dynamic custom document automation/generation project. Currently using Excel
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I have one particular client that requires us to deliver a few annual packages and letters to their partnership members. Say, roughly 500 members. The letters have paragraph text, line ...
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Single tool, ideally open source, for specifying application use cases, requirements, and functional specifications
Is there a free or inexpensive tool that supports the development of Use Cases (or User Stories), Requirements, and Functional Specifications? I know there is a tendency to blur the lines between ...
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LaTeX themes for doxygen
Doxygen is a tool to generate documentation from source code. It supports many output formats, of which PDF is one of it.
The output can be further customized with LaTeX documents and style sheets. ...
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Helpdesk, community, knowledgebase, documentation
We're building a SaaS app. I'd like use another SaaS to handle the customer service parts of the app. Specifically, I'm looking for:
Single sign-on. When the customer signs into our app, they should ...
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Converting HTML Form values into a formatted document
I want to create an application where the user input(from a form) determines the content of a generated document. This document needs to be formated, and the content has to be displayed in the correct ...
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Writing tool for documents with multiple authors
I'm looking for a tool for teachers. They write assessments for their pupils. So each teacher writes one per pupil. The software should collect all single assessments and create one large document out ...
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NodeJS - Create a document from a template
I'm trying to figure out a way to create a document from some data in NodeJS.
I'm building a web app to serve as a report form. I want to pass data from it to a database and later create printable ...
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Crawling a JS-heavy web page with Chrome Headless, saving to html, convert to PDF
Is there a GUI- or commandline-based tool that can crawl a Javascript-heavy web site and save the ~50 pages encountered to .html files? Then I'd like to convert the HTML pages to PDF. Finally I'd like ...
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I need a good open source and still maintained C/C++ library that can Read/Write (process) .docx and .xlsx files
As the title says, and sine I am a C++ developer (and mainly using wxWidgets as a toolkit) my purpose for it is to provide an editable reporting application. I will give the users a sample templates ...
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Documentation platform
Here in the company, we need to make online documentation available for several users. Currently, our little documentation is created in MS Word and made available to users in PDF format, but we need ...
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Is there a tool to author and manage release notes for various software modules in IBM Rational toolsuite?
My organization is using the IBM Rational tool suite(DOORS, Rational Team Concert etc). However, Release Notes for various modules are being maintained using MS Word documents.
Is there software ...
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Flutter Source code documentation generator
Is there a good program to generate documentation from dart source code? similar to javadoc or Doxygen I am aware dartdoc exist but that is only for api documentation as far as I know
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Tool to draw graphics by template definition
We are generating technical documentation at work and are currently taking screenshots then manually draw on the screenshot to highlight different areas or controls in the image. The text in the ...
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JS documentation engine for API reference, tutorials and product blog
I'm looking for documentation engine for API reference, tutorials and product blog with the following requirements:
Implemented in JS and has JS API
Generates static content
Support themes
Does not ...
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Is there a tool or plugin which can automatically annotate scala code?
I'm currently writing documentation for my Scala code so I can generate Scaladocs.
I'm curious however, is there any tool or plugin (I'm using IntelliJ IDEA CE) I can use to auto annotate the code to ...
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Tool to document web API
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I have a soap web API which is built in java with spring.
The API is part of a service which is one component from a microservice.
There is no possibility of manually writing the ...
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Java tool for automatically generating documentation for SOAP-based APIs?
Is there any Java tool that, given an JavaEE SOAP API, the tool will automatically scan the package containing the endpoints of the service. The tool should also provide access to a route (something ...
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Headless CMS for collaborative working on user manual
The Headless CMS I am looking for will be used by approx. 5 developers, creating a user manual. This manual will contain images, rich text, links, tables and lists. The target audience are mostly Non-...
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Database documentation from JPA annotations
I am tasked with implementing better DB schema documentation at work. It was requested to investigate whether this can be done based on Annotations in an @Entity class.
We are using Spring Boot and, ...
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PHP Library for convertation from PHP doc to OpenApi annotations
I need a lib that can parse phpdoc of Yii2 controller's actions and generate proper OpenApi annotations (to use https://github.com/zircote/swagger-php/ for swagger config generation).
Did anybody do ...
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Best way to document REST APIs in (go) source?
I am working on a REST API implemented in go.
I have already wrestled with godoc
Colleagues have started using apidoc.js but I have found in lacking in several areas. For example I don't even know ...
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Looking for ways to make devs aware of shared components
We are currently growing in size, and i keep finding devops trying to reinvent stuff that already exist. Is there any tool you guys use that help maling the shared levels a bit more transparent?
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Application/documentation for managing flow between servers
I'm working on application Integration and with the help of one Network guy we are managing the flows between our application and the others.
To Sum up me problem, we have several version of that ...
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Moving doxygen comments from source to header
Are there any tools available to automate moving Doxygen comments from source files to the corresponding headers? Nothing listed on the Helper tools and scripts page seems to handle that, and I've not ...
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Tool to generate API-like documentation for complex html element collections
I searched, couldn't quite find anything similar, but apologies if asked and answered before.
Looking for a tool (in whatever form, standalone program, script, cli executable, something to go in the ...
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C++ or C# module documentation tool for both API reference and online book
There are some documentation tools for C++ or C# module developers.
Doxygen: Best for generating cross-reference API reference documentation, but it is hard to author an online book (overview, ...
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App to draw bit/byte based messages from plain text description
I think I saw a similar question here a few years back, just just can't find it.
I would like to draw descriptions of messages like this:
From a plain-text input file which describes them.
Maybe ...
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Math writing tablet apps instead of LaTeX
I am not fluent in LaTeX and was wondering whether any of the new iPad pen-input apps are very useful for writing math documents more fluently than using LaTeX as a proxy language. If so, which one/...
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C++ UML generation/edit tool
What I want is a proper UML tool for C++;
I need the following features:
generation of class diagram from (complex) c++ source
including class members
showing members as relationships where possible
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Is there any tooling to document PLC code per IEC 61131 (formerly IEC 1131)?
I'm looking for documentation generator tooling - whether open-source, gratis, or not, for programmable logic controller (PLC) code, i.e. the IEC 61131-3 family of programming languages.
By a ...
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C# Winfroms GUI Documentation
For a library project without a GUI I'm using XML documentation tags in my C# code and Sandcastle to create a help / documentation file for the API. I really like this, because every time I add ...
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Is Google's Developer Documentation tooling public?
Did Google publish their public developer documentation tooling/generators? I'm talking about the documentation available from the https://developers.google.com/ family of URLs. E.g. https://...
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Tool for software documentation purpose
I'm a software developer, and I'm looking for a tool in order to write software documentation in collaboration with my team.
This means that, this tool should be has some mechanism of versioning in ...
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Software tool to assist me in documenting a file format
There's this file format which I want to write some documentation for. It's intended for humans, but should be specific enough so that a person could essentially parse the format (if perhaps slowly) ...
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Swagger User Interface without JSON/YAML
My boss asked me for a tool to do swagger documentation through UI without typing in JSON/YAML based data.
He wanted something like a form with fields where if we type in relevant details like ...
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Generate Certificate (award)
I need to generate A4 letter/certificate/award online that can be printed by users that works on all devices. It has to look nice and allow me to dynamically add text to it.
Currently I have a .NET ...
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Report generating tool for Microsoft Word (team-based)
The Problem
I work with a team of people where we frequently generate reports specific to clients, regions, and topics. Each time we begin a new report, we open up several older reports which cover ...
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Software for Android App Documentation
I am doing documentation of my Android app. I want to create a documentation of my product like Facebook does in their docs. I am looking for a software which can help me to document my product for my ...
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Assemble user documentation from pieces
We have a web-based enterprise application which has many different areas of functionality. Most of our users only have access to a limited subset of that functionality. That can range anywhere from ...
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Software wiki framework that jupyter's doc uses?
I'm looking at the jupyter platform docs
https://jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
looks like this
I've seen this platform many times
What is it called?
It looks similar to jekyll ...
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Open Source Document Automation - Jinterview Alternative
Is anybody aware of an open source document automation software like similar to jinterview: http://jinterview.sourceforge.net/default.htm
Jinterview was abandoned so long ago that I have been having ...
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Tool to generate angular documentation searchable via tags
I work in a company and we have a lot of projects that are using angularjs. My issue here is that we are around 30 devs and it is quite hard to be aware of all directives/components/services that ...
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A robust and flexible alternative to doxygen supporting C++
I need to generate documentation for a C++ project of mine (and soon perhaps also for additional ones). So far I've looked into doxygen, and even though it seems popular, I've had some issues with it (...
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Tool for documenting server configuration
My team is looking for a COTS tool that would allow us to document our different environments with the following info:
What applications & websites live on a server
What IPs map to a server
What ...
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Which platforms to use for writing documentation/help/manual?
I came to a point where it is absolutely necessary to have some kind of documentation about my product. So some sort of help or user manual for customers, because i want to reduce the number of emails....
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.NET documentation generator alternatives to Sandcastle?
I was looking for a tool to build my documentation. Sandcastle is good but it seems not work for .NET core projects and is old and buggy.
Is there any good alternative that can generate docs for .NET ...
