You can modify your help preferences so that
you access help content from different locations than what you chose
when you installed the product.
Procedure
- Open the list of help system
connections by completing one of the following steps:
- To change the help content selections for your Eclipse client
only:
- With your product open, click .
- Expand Help and click Content.
- To change the help content selections for anyone
connected to this help system:
- In a browser, open the Help Administration page in
the following format: http://localhost:port/help-name/updater/admin.jsp.
- Select the Remote help configuration tab.
A window similar to the following example
displays:
- Enable the server URLs in the table as necessary:
- To access remote help from the public information
center:
- Select the row of the table with the product name.
- If this row does not exist, click New and
enter a name and information center URL to use. You can select a URL
from the list of Rational Information Centers is at Rational software information centers.
- Click Enable. For most products, the remote
help connection is the first row and is enabled by default.
- Select the row of the previous connection
and click Disable.
- To access local help that is installed on your
computer:
- Select the Local row of the table.
- If this row does not exist, click New and
enter a name and information center URL to use. You can identify your
URL by opening your Help Administration page. The server, port, and
help name is the same for the local connection.
Example:
- Help Administration page: http://127.0.0.1:62855/help/updater/admin.jsp
- Corresponding local information center: http://127.0.0.1:62855/help/index.jsp
- Click Enable.
- Select the row of the previous connection
and click Disable.
- To access help from an intranet server:
- Click New.
- In the Add new information center window,
enter a Name for the help and provide the URL to
the information center. Example:
- Click Test Connection to ensure
that the URL is valid.
- Click OK to save the changes.
- Verify that the new connection displays in the table
as enabled.
- Select the row of the previous
connection and click Disable.
- Create a connection order for the enabled connections. If more than one connection is enabled, each one is tested in
order until an active connection is found.
For
example, a common scenario is that remote help is listed first in
the table and local help is listed second in the table. If you have
an internet connection, the remote help connection is used. When you
do not have an internet connection, the local help is used.
To change the order of the connections:
- Select a row in the table.
- Click Up or Down to
move the connection up or down in the list.
- Click Apply and OK to
save the changes.
Results
If you chose to enable the local help and you
have an internet connection, the help content is installed automatically
when you start the product.