FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

Can a webBook reference another webBook? 8/7/2025

Yes - webBook are websites and you can create links to any websites on any page of a webBook.

"A webBook Experience" vBook added

Since the previous version of the "Intro to webBook Initiative" video  was a webBook experience of the webBook for the the webBook Initiative, I added this video to vBooks as "A webBook Experience."  This allows you to "experience" a webBook.  This is the primary way to use webBooks effectively-- you experience them.  Enjoy!

Intro to webBook Initiative video updated

I updated the intro to webBook Initiative to focus on engagement and not on webBook mechanics to help people better understand how they might engage.

The primary target audience for this video are my colleagues at UC so they can quickly understand how they can engage.  A secondary audience is anyone else who might like to engage.

Refreshed webBook

 The webBook Initiative webBook was updated 2/18/2025.

- Updated to new latest Legume release including using the new Legume template.

- General review and update highlighting working with UC.

What's Been Happening

An update on what's been going on...

Legume Product

Recall the Legume product is the creation tool for webBooks.

Improvements have been made with the aim of getting close to MVP (Minimal Viable Product).

- Added BackPointers -- Back pointers are on every page showing path back to main page.  The BackPointers development project focused on creating the back pointers automatically.  Prior to this is was a tedious and error prone task.

-  Added Buildup -- A critical feature of webBooks is Buildup -- a page can be setup to show various features of the page in multiple views of the page.   Typically this is done to walk sequentially through features of the page.  Included is a left hand selection bar to get quickly to any stage of the buildup.  The Buildup project focused on creating a buildup of a page based on layers.  Prior this this project, buildup was difficult to the point of unusable.  What is added makes this process straight forward and smooth.

- New Start Point Template -- In support of other development projects, particularly BackPointers, a new start point template was needed.  An attempt was made to seamlessly support webBooks created with earlier templates.  This proved difficult.  As a result converting older webBooks to the new format is a "start-from-scratch and do a page-by-page copy old to new" process.  While tedious, this process is straight forward and simple. 

Migrating from  AWS (Amazon Web Services) to Microsoft Azure for SaaS Support

- Supplying the Legume product as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering as well an installed product is critical for getting new users engaged.  Implementation on AWS has served us well for several years, but there is little support available from AWS and we were encountering problems.  There is no user community support for this work.  The direction is to move to this to the Microsoft Azure -- the Microsoft product competing with AWS.  This move is also motivated by UC being a "Microsoft Shop."  This work is just beginning.

Introduction of webBookGuy

It's been fun identifying as webBookGuy.  I created webBookGuy@gmail.com in support of this identity.

Refreshed webBook

This refresh focuses on thrust to use the Industry 4.0/5.0 Institute as an example for webBook initiative.

Major changes:

- Proposed projects updated removing those done and adding new.

- Activity log focus in Status & Plan.

Refreshed webBook

This refresh is targeted for further discussions with Grant Hoffman, Director of Startups in the UC Venture Lab. 

Major Changes:

- Executive Summary has been tweaked include founder's wisdom, intuition, passion, vision, and energy as elements I bring to the table.

- Business Development projects page has been reorganized to show most important projects at the top of the list and show need for Minimal Viable Product (MVP).

- There are significant adds to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).

- Status and Plans info has been updated to show where we are at the moment.

- vBooks have been updated as needed and Vision vBook has been added.

- About Paul Vollbracht page added under More Details.