WebSphere WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, Version 6.0.1 Operating Systems: AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows

Displaying help about console pages

The administrative console provides online help for each page and field. You can display hover help for individual fields, or extended help for entire pages.

Why and when to perform this task

If you want more detailed information about a field or page on the administrative console, you can display hover help for fields or extended help for pages.

To display help for the administrative console, choose from the following steps:

Steps for this task

  1. Display hover help for a field.

    Place the cursor over a field to view hover help about that field. The help is limited to a few sentences, and is displayed only for about 7 seconds. If you want the hover help to be displayed for longer, you can display the hover help in the help portal.

  2. Display hover help in the help portal.

    If you want to display hover help for longer, place the cursor over a field and wait for the question mark (?) icon to appear. When the icon appears, click the field name to display brief help about it in the help portal on the right side of the page.

    If you want to view extended information about the field, or about the entire page and its associated tasks, click the More information about this page link at the bottom of the help portal.

  3. Display extended help for a page.

    The extended help for a page provides more detail about the page and about the fields and controls on the page.

    To display extended help for a page, click Help from the console task bar to view online help in a new Web browser. From the help browser, you can do the following:
    • Browse for the topic you want to view in the Index tab. Click the link for that topic to open it in the right panel of the browser.
    • Search for a topic by specifying one or more key words in the Search tab. All matching topics are displayed in the navigation tree; click a topic link to view it.

    To display extended help for a page, click the question mark (?) icon on the console task bar. Otherwise, click Help on the console task bar, then use the help browser to locate the help

    Extended help is displayed in a separate Web browser window from the administrative console. From the help browser, you can do the following:
    • Browse for the topic you want to view in the Index tab. Click the link for that topic to open it in the right panel of the browser.
    • Search for a topic by specifying one or more key words in the Search tab. All matching topics are displayed in the navigation tree; click a topic link to view it.

Result

You should see the list of entries in the navigation pane change to conform to the selected task filter.


Task topic

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