Help

Use the Preferences Help pages to set the help preferences for CICS Explorer™ and change the way that the CICS Explorer displays the help information.

Help page

When you request help, by default, context help is displayed in a dynamic help view, and help contents is displayed in a new window. You can use the Preferences Help page to change these settings.

A screen capture of the Preferences Help view
Table 1. Open Modes options. - These options define how the help content is presented when a topic is opened.
Option Description Default
Open Help search This option defines how the Help Search is displayed. The choices are:
  • In the Dynamic Help view.
  • In a separate browser window.
In the Dynamic Help view.
Open Help view documents This option defines how help topics are displayed. The choices are:
  • In place, that is, in the in the same window where the topic is selected.
  • In the editor area in the workbench.
  • In a separate browser window.
In place.
Open help contents This option defines how the Help Contents is displayed. The choices are:
  • In the Help browser
  • In an external browser, such as Internet Explorer or Firefox.
In the Help browser
Table 2. Context help options. - These options define how the help context help is presented.
Option Description Default
Open window context help This option defines how the context (F1) help is displayed. The choices are:
  • In the Dynamic Help view.
  • In an Infopop.
In the Dynamic Help view.
Open dialog context help This option defines how context help for dialogs is displayed. The choices are:
  • In a dialog tray.
  • In an Infopop.
In a dialog tray.

An example Help Infopop:

An example infopop window.

Help Content page

When you do a search in the Help Contents, you can retrieve additional help information from remote information centers provided that they are running on Eclipse version 3.3 or above. You use the Help Content page to provide the location of a remote information center.

Table 3. Help Content Options
Option Description Default
Include local help only If checked, this option disables the use of remote help content. The rest of the fields on the page are not enabled if this option is checked. Checked
Include remote help and give local help priority The help system shows locally installed help contents as well as help contents from the information centers specified in the table. If the same page exists both locally and on the remote information center the local page is shown. Not checked
Include remote help and give it priority The help system will show locally installed help contents as well as help contents from the information centers specified in the table. If the same page exists both locally and on the remote information center the remote page will be shown. Not checked

In the example screen capture below, remote help information is retrieved from the information center located at http://help.eclipse.org/help33/

A screen capture of the Preferences Help Content view showing a value of help.eclipse.org in the Host field, and /help33 in the Path field