If you have an Internet connection, you
can use the Local Help Updater to install help content on your computer
from the remote IBM® help archive
site.
Before you begin
Typically, this task is done on a computer
where the product is installed. If you are installing the help on
an intranet server where the product is not installed, you must first deploy
the help system infrastructure on that server. Then, you can
install the local help.
About this task
This task can be used to install
help content on your computer or on a server. You use the Local Help
Updater to install local help content on your computer from the remote
archive site, as shown in this graphic.
Procedure
- In a browser, open the Help Administration
page by typing a URL that is in this format: http://server:port/help-name/updater/admin.jsp
- Select the Update Help Content tab.
- In the site list, expand the product that you
would like to install the content for. The list of sites in
the Available content section are filtered to display your Favorites by
default, which includes internal sites you added or public sites that
you installed content from. To see other sites, change the filter to All
sites. If the site list does not populate, you might have to use the Installing help content locally from a downloaded archive file task instead of this one.
- Select the help content features to install
from the list that is provided, and click Install.
- When the installation finishes, verify the
installation by opening the help in the product by clicking .
Results
The help that you selected is installed
and is available from your product.
What to do next
If you downloaded the help
to either a server or your computer:- You can choose to enable automatic
updates. By default, the Automatic Updates option
is not selected in the Local Help Updater. If
you select the Automatic Updates option, you
receive updated content from the site and the sites in the Favorites
Sites list when the help archive file is restarted and
an internet connection exists. If you choose to leave the Automatic
Updates check box cleared, you can manually update content.
If you downloaded the help to a server
and the product was installed by using IBM Installation Manager:- If other users are accessing this help
content from the products that were installed on their computers with IBM Installation Manager,
provide them with the server, the port, and the path to the help system.
Ensure that the server you provide is not localhost.
Example:
http://server.ibm.com:8080/help-name/index.jsp- Server: server.ibm.com
- Port: 8080
- Path: /help-name