Changing from help on an intranet server to remote help

You can change the way you access help content. You can get the most up-to-date help content by opening help each time from the Web.

About this task

To change from getting help on an intranet server to accessing help content on the Web:

Procedure

  1. On the help server, navigate to the help preferences page, product-URL/help/remote/remotehelp.jsp, for example, https://localhost:9443/help/remote/remotehelp.jsp.
    The Preferences window opens.
  2. Ensure that Include help content from a remote infocenter is selected.
  3. Enter the Remote Help information center information:
    1. In Name, enter a name for the connection.
    2. In Host, enter the Host name.
    3. In Path, enter the path to the help.
    4. Select Use default port.
    5. Click Save.
  4. Verify the help by navigating to, product-URL/help/index.jsp, for example, https://localhost:9443/help/index.jsp.

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