You can download and update help content from the Help download site.
Most help content is not installed when you install your product.
To access all help content locally, you need download it from the IBM® Local
Help System Updater website. Typically, the help content is retrieved
from the Intranet so it is the most current. If you do not have an
Internet connection or have performance issues, you can access help
locally.
Before you begin
During installation, the help access option,
Download
help and access the content locally, was selected or you
have changed to use local help.
About this task
Before you can use the help for the product, you must download
the help to your local computer.
Procedure
- On a computer with internet access, obtain the compressed
help-content file for your product from the Help download site,
by visiting http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/rationalsdp/documentation/updatesites/. The file has the format prod_coden.n_updateSite.zip,
where prod_code is the product code and n.n is
the version number.
- Download this file to your computer with the product, and
extract the file contents.
- With your product open, click . The Updater site opens.
- Click the Internal Sites tab, click Add (+),
and enter the 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. 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.