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Hello All,
I have a simple query
What is the best/ standard method of documenting the business process in Solar01
1) Is it Scenario based
2) Functionality based
In scenario based, I will document entire Business process ie end to end scenario
in this case advantage is that, hepful while testing and business process monitoring.
disadvantage is that
if any Business process need to be changed , then the same need to be changed in all relavent End to end scenrios.
there will duplication of work.
Could some one guide me the exact method of documenting the Business processes.
Regards,
Shyam.

HI,
I think Scenario based is better
1) It's more reasonable to manage your documentation with the business process since they are quite related
2) I suggest that you use the check out /check in functionnality to prevent the modification from multiple users at the same time
3) As the changes happen some time, which means you have to maintain the related document often, it would be a good idea to use the link but not the copy of document
4) In most case, i would insert documents of various types in different tabs like Trainning materials, project documentation, test in SOLAR02
5) What's more, if all your user guides are uploaded to the Trainning material tab, you will be able to use the existant documents to supply the SOLAR_LEARNING_MAP, which in my opinion, simplifies a lot the tranning session of any global-rollout
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