Rendered Documentation

Within an enterprise documentation system, rendered documentation is the type of documentation that can be downloaded or transferred to a device for offline reading.

The capability to provide documentation in render formats is not necessarily an integral part of an enterprise documentation system, as long as the system functions as a general-purpose enterprise knowledge repository. However, it becomes essential for the following use cases

• Producing reports for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) purposes
• Producing takeaway documentation for customers and partners
• Automating the creation of manual documentation used in legacy business processes

Types of Rendered Documentation

Rendered documents use a render document encoding format which usually contains layout and formatting directives. PDF is the archetypal document render format, but a folder (or zip file) containing static HTML files, e-reader book files, and even Microsoft Word documents are also forms of rendered documentation.

DocOps Automation

Many documentation platforms allow pages to be saved in render formats (typically PDF). While the DocOps engineer may leverage this capability in a headless manner, rendered documents are usually purposefully composed by gathering content from many sources. In other words, rendered documents are typically distinct information vehicles with their own unique table of contents.