About Manuals
Manuals are structured reference documents you publish for your organization, things like SOPs, training references, and operating procedures.
Franchise Systems Ai (FS Ai) gives you one place to write, organize, and publish them.
Finding your manuals
Go to Operations → Manuals to see every manual in your organization.
The page opens in a table with these columns: Title, Category, Status, Est. Reading Time, Created By, and Last Updated.
A toggle at the top switches between List and Grid view.
Creating a manual
Click Create Manual to start a new one. It opens in the manual editor.
The manual editor
Click any manual in the list to open it in the editor.
The editor holds these fields:
- Title: the manual's name, shown in the list and to readers
- Slug: the URL-friendly identifier for the manual
- Category: which category the manual groups under
- Author: who the manual is attributed to
- Published Date: the date shown on the manual
- Description: a short summary of what the manual covers
- Cover Image: an image uploaded to represent the manual
A Featured Article toggle marks the manual as featured.
Saving, downloading, and publishing
The editor gives you three actions:
- Save and Exit: saves your changes and returns you to the manual list
- Download PDF: exports the manual as a PDF
- Publish: makes the manual live
To remove a manual entirely, use Delete Article in the editor.
