Living Manual Documentation

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Contents

  1. What Living Manual is
    1. The two plugins
    2. Where your content lives
  2. Installing Living Manual
    1. Requirements
    2. Installing the free core
    3. Installing Living Manual Pro
    4. The setup wizard
  3. Creating a manual
    1. Add a document
    2. What happens next depends on Pro
    3. Getting a good result
  4. Reading a manual
    1. Browsing
    2. Searching
    3. Access
  5. The AI docent
    1. What makes it different from a general chatbot
    2. How it finds an answer
    3. Cost
    4. When the docent says it does not know
  6. Insights
    1. What to do with it
  7. Licensing
    1. Activating
    2. Deactivating
    3. Revalidation
    4. What happens when a license lapses
    5. Common activation problems
  8. Updating a manual
    1. Re-ingest
    2. Replacing the source document
    3. Deleting
  9. Permissions
    1. Changing the required capability
    2. Read-only viewers
  10. Troubleshooting
    1. Manual pages return 404
    2. The manual's URL stopped resolving
    3. The ingest produced no sections, or almost none
    4. The ingest failed
    5. The ingest seems stuck
    6. The docent is not there
    7. The docent will not answer a question the document covers
    8. Emails from Living Manual are not arriving
  11. Getting help
    1. Documentation
    2. Feedback, for everyone
    3. Support tickets, with a license
    4. What to include in a ticket
  12. Privacy and data
    1. What stays on your server
    2. What the free core sends, and when
    3. What Living Manual Pro sends
    4. Deleting your data