text management

Essential Management provides a project management system for organizing and writing technical documents.

Essential Management is a multi-user project management system for managing intricate and complex information. Its initial purpose was to allow software development teams to create, maintain, track, and store project requirements on a multi-project basis in a multi-user environment. It has now become more abstract in the type of data it can maintain, allowing the easy addition of new data models and other expansions. Information can be stored in any of several database management systems, and can take advantage of a networked DBMS.

The first and most important feature of the application is that data is stored in a central data repository managed by some database management server; initially PostgreSQL fills this role, but support for others are growing. The repository is fully searchable. An alternative data storage format exists in the form of a locally maintained XML file if the user wishes to use it.

One of the key features Essential Management was designed around is the ability to define and maintain relationships between requirements. Using the software requirement model as an example, our application allows users to define projects; each project is composed of zero or more root requirements, which are typically business level requirements. Each business requirement has zero or more sub-requirements, which either refine the parent business requirement or dive into the functional requirements which allow the business requirement to be achieved. This tree continues to branch and grow deeper until the most basic level that the user wishes to define is reached.

In addition the relationship between parent and child requirements, relationships can be defined between requirements not in the same branch. These relationships may have any meaning the user wishes to define and can be unidirectional or bi-directional.

Essential Management implements the concept of user level permissions, which provides a small measure of security for the projects and their requirements. Additionally, creation of and changes to requirements can be traced to the user who initiated the action.

Finally, the application provides a means to track changes made to requirements during their lifetime so it is possible to determine when a change was made, what information was changed and who edited the requirement.

Welcome to Text Trix[tm], the text tinker from Text Flex[tm]! Text Trix is a one-stop tool chest of text tools. Pick from an array of Text Trix "plug-ins," specialized tools that allow you to modify large amounts of text quickly and specifically. The tool chest has its own built-in features to help you organize and navigate through your code or text documents.

Whether youre toolin or foolin, were here to make your day.

Armed with more and more features in the "text tool chest" and its growing base of plug-ins, or "trix and tools," we hope youll find Text Trix increasingly useful in managing large amounts of text in no time. Lets get installin!

Whats New in This Release:

· Our v.0.5.1 release of Text Trix is the first bug-cruncher in our new FRIENDS (Family of Really Innovative ENDS) series. Our goal in this series is to get serious about making friends of Text Trix. Were seeking to create a family of plugins that will be a one-stop resource, and "end" to your search for text tools that make your typing easier. Or an "end*s*," cuz with Text Trix, the family keeps growing, and the trix never end!
· Of course, to build a family, we need a solid home to house it. This release focuses on crunching a few bugs in Text Trix itself as well as a couple of its plugins. Notable behind-the-scenes fixes include removal of a couple start-up errors you reported on some platforms. The new Song Sheet plugin also has a few tweaks to work with a wider variety of text formatting.
· Every house needs an exterminator...but soon well need a decorator! Weve blasted a few bugs here, and now were looking for new decor. If you have ideas for a plugin or would like to write your own, please dont hesitate to post one. We look forward to your joining the family!