Make Your Content Public on ScreenSteps Live
The easiest option to quickly get your documentation out to your customers is to make your manuals public on your ScreenSteps Live account. You can then send you customers there to view your documentation.
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This is the fastest way to get your content out there. There is basically no configuration required. Publish your lessons and you are done.
Make Your Content Private on ScreenSteps Live
If you don't want all users to have access to your documentation then you can make your manuals on ScreenSteps Live private. You will then need to create Reader accounts for each user or each group of users who you want to see your content. You can control user access on a manual by manual basis. For example, user 1 may see manual 1 while user 2 can see manual 1 and 2.
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This takes a little more setup but is very easy to manage if the number of users you will be managing is not too large. If you are going to be managing a lot of readers and you already have a method of authenticating those readers through a different system then this may become cumbersome.
View Content Through Your Website Using the ScreenSteps Live API
You can also choose to lock down all of your content on ScreenSteps Live (only admin and author users that you create would have access) and only provide access through your website or desktop app using the ScreenSteps Live API. This has several advantages:
1. You can use the system you already have in place to authenticate your users.
2. Any updates you make to your manuals on ScreenSteps Live are instantly seen by your users on your website.
3. You keep users within your own site while viewing your documentation.
Plugins
We have created a few plugins that make it easy to integrate ScreenSteps Live content into your existing site. Fee free to check them out. They come with an example API key so that you can see some examples of ScreenSteps Live content in your site right away:
1. PHP example code
2. WordPress Plugin
3. Ruby on Rails Plugin
