Appendix A.  DHIS 2 Documentation Guide

Table of Contents

A.1. DHIS 2 Documentation System Overview
A.2. Introduction
A.3. Getting started with Launchpad
A.4. Getting the document source
A.5. Editing the documentation
A.6. Using images
A.7. Linking documents together
A.8. Handling multilingual documentation
A.9. Building the documentation
A.9.1. Building the documentation with Apache maven
A.9.2. Building with xmlto
A.10. Committing your changes back to Launchpad

A.1. DHIS 2 Documentation System Overview

DHIS 2 is a web-based aggregate information management system under very active development. Given the modular nature of the system, its wide user base and distributed, global nature of development, a comprehensive documentation system is required. An in-depth discussion of the need for documentation of DHIS 2 has been considered previously.[Store2007] DocBook is a comprehensive XML based system for creation of books, papers and other technical documents maintained by OASIS .