Basis documentation respository in Solution Manager?

Hi,
I am wondering if anyone out there uses Solution Directory as a central repository to store Basis documentation?
If yes, I would appreciate if you can share the pros and cons and if you can also explain on how to do it, it will be perfect.
From what I have read so far, it is more for Business processes, interface, txn etc. How about documentation that are non-Business?
Thanks.
Regards,
Annie

Hi Annie,
In my company we are using SolMan as a documentation repository for basis, we simply have defined a separate project for BASIS team, where we're putting all the useful information in form of word files, it's quite straight forward to search it with TREX.
Additionally if you want you can create "subfolders" so you can give some order to documents (for example "archiving" or "ECC" and so on). It's quite helpful to generate URL links to documents, that you can for example send in an email.
From cons... SolMan is not perfect, so if there are troubles with TREX searching documents is impossible, also you can't really provide any taging functionality like for example in wiki. Hope this will help.

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