You can download and update help content from the Help download site and
provide access to the content on a local server. This help server
can be the product server or another intranet server just for the
help.
About this task
Before you can provide intranet access to the help for the
product, you must download the help content to a local server.
Procedure
- On a computer with Internet access, obtain the compressed
help-content file for your product from the Help download site by
going to http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/rationalsdp/documentation/updatesites/. The file has this format: prod_coden.n_updateSite.zip,
where prod_code is the product code and n.n is
the version number.
- Download this file, save the file to your intranet server,
and then extract the file contents.
- With the product open on a computer that is connected to
the intranet, click . The Updater
site opens.
- Click the Internal Sites tab, click Add (+),
and enter the intranet server location of the extracted the site\site.xml file
that you extracted in step 2. For example, if your extracted
files are in c:\myHelp, then enter c:\myHelp\site\site.xml.
- Click OK in the Add Internal Site dialog
box, and then select this site in the list of Internal Sites. The Available Features provides
a list of the help that is available for download. Depending on your
network connection speed, generating this list might take a few minutes.
- Select the help content that you need, and click Install. The help content is downloaded and installed. A progress
bar opens and tracks the status of the download.
- When the download is completed, open the help in the product
by selecting
Results
The help that you selected is installed on your computer.
The help content is updated automatically when the product is started
while an Internet connection is available.