The Help Administration page provides access to all of the tools
that you use to administer the help server.
You can open the
Help Administration page by typing a URL that is in this
format in a browser that is on the help server:
http://localhost:port/help-name/updater/admin.jsp
For
IBM® Rational® DOORS® Web Access, the URL is typically:
http://localhost:8080/dwa-help/updater/admin.jsp.
If a browser is not installed on the help server, you cannot use the
localhost URL. Instead, you must set a security option for
role-based security, as described in
Securing your help server. Then, you can
access the
Help Administration page from a remote computer by using
a URL that is in this format:
http://server:port/help-name/updater/admin.jsp
To
determine the server name, port, and help name, see
Accessing the tools by forming URLs.
You can individually access most of the administration tools by using the URLs that are in the
following table.
Table 1. URLs to help server toolsHelp server tool |
URL |
Corresponding Help Administration tab |
Help content |
http://server:port/help-name/index.jsp |
Home page |
About |
http://server:port/help-name/about/about.jsp |
About |
Local Help Updater |
http://server:port/help-name/updater/updatewar.jsp |
Update help content |
Remote help configuration |
http://server:port/help-name/remote/remotehelp.jsp |
Remote help configuration |
Network connections |
http://server:port/help-name/updater/proxy.jsp |
Network connections |
Accessing the tools by forming URLs
To identify the server, port, and help name for a URL, copy a topic link and edit it to form the
URL for the tool you want to use.
- Open the Rational
DOORS help content:
- Using the Rational
DOORS client for Windows
systems, click .
- Using the web client, click the help icon in the upper-right corner of
the window and then click the menu item
Help.
- In the Contents pane, right-click a topic and then click the menu item to copy the URL, such as Copy Link Location, Copy Shortcut, or Copy Link Address. The URL is in this format: http://server:port/help-name/topic/plug-in/topics/topic.html
- Log on to the server or the computer that hosts the help system.
- Paste the URL in a browser.
- Replace server with localhost or 127.0.0.1.
- Remove the topic information from the end of the URL: /topic/plug-in/topics/topic.html
- Add the appropriate URL ending for the Help Administration page or for any
of the other tools in the table.
This example shows what the URL for identifying the
Help
Administration page look like before and after you modify it:
- Before:
http://server.ibm.com:51528/help/topic/com.ibm.help.common.rational.doc/topics/c_overview_rational.html
- After:
http://127.0.0.1:51528/help/updater/admin.jsp