Talk:Flowchart/2006

Structure of document
Agree with the last comment. The article has a bit of a bent towards practically creating flowcharts, and the links with particular (technichal) applications of the technique are too limiting. I suggest that the format of the article should cover: the purpose and usefulness of the tool; more on the history of the flowchart; then a definition of the types of Flowchart; links with other tools for similar jobs; its many applications in business, engineering, service delivery, quality control; "famous" flowcharts (if any); and the software that can be used to create flows; follow up with links to other info.

A lot of the information already here could then be slotted into categories that would help to establish a more encyclopedia-type flavour to the article.

What do others think?

--Dan 07:02, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

I agree, also the section about creating flowcharts manually could be reworked a bit, maybe even reduced -- do we really want to add a very short (aka useless) description how to operate all the different available drawing tools?

For now I added one exaple using automated tools (yes, shameless plug :-)

Tels 12:27, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Correction to Symbols
In the Symbols section, the "Manual Operation" symbol was listed as a "parallelogram with the longest parallel side upmost." Note that a parallelogram does not have a "longer" parallel side; by definition, the parallel sides are of equal length. Corrected to "trapezoid" per MS Visio, PowerPoint, and every other reference I've ever seen on flowcharts.

Anyone think a picture of the symbols, labeled, would be helpful here? The descriptions seem a little imprecise, and wordy, for something that's easy to show. e.g. "... rectangle, with the top irregularly sloping up from left to right ..." Well then, it's not a rectangle, is it? --Dugald 06:48, 27 October 2006 (UTC)