Downloading IBM Business Process Manager documentation

Your product uses remote help to access the latest version of the product documentation on the web. If you need to work offline, you will need to download the documentation files and install them into the same location as the BPM product.

Before you begin

Installing the documentation requires a working Internet connection to download documentation files.

About this task

You can find the information center for IBM Business Process Manager on the web at http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/dmndhelp/v8r5m0/index.jsp. If you use the embedded help system that is installed with the IBM BPM product, then by default you are using this site to access the latest version of this information. For example, if you click the Help link in IBM Process Designer, the embedded help system will automatically access the help documentation at that link.

When you are connected to the web, the system will automatically use the web version to ensure that you are seeing the latest version of the documentation. However, if you need to work offline, you need to download the documentation to a local directory. When there is a new release of the product, you need to update your installed documentation to keep it current.

To install the documentation for IBM Business Process Manager Standard to a local directory, follow these steps. If you are using IBM Business Process Manager Advanced, you must install the documentation for IBM Integration Designer separately.

Procedure

  1. In a browser, navigate to the following web address: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/dmndhelp/downloads/v8r5m0/localhelp_bpm85.zip .
  2. Save the file to a local temp directory.
  3. Extract the contents of the file to your BPM installation directory by entering the following commands:
    1. cd BPM_install_directory (where BPM_install_directory represents the directory where you previously installed the IBM Business Process Manager Standard product).
    2. unzip localhelp_bpm850.zip This command installs the documentation into BPM_install_directory/BPM/Lombardi/doc.local.
  4. If you need to update the documentation at a later date, then you first need to remove the documentation that you had previously installed locally.
    1. In a command window, enter cd BPM_install_directory.
    2. To remove the files, for Windows, enter del BPM/Lombardi/doc.local; for Unix, enter rm -fr BPM/Lombardi/doc.local.
    3. After removing the old files in that way, follow steps 1 to 3 to install the update files.

What to do next

You need to restart your IBM Business Process Manager server to see the documentation. It should then be available from the Help links of the various IBM BPM components (such as Process Designer and Process Center).