Setting help display preferences

You can customize the way that the CICS Explorer™ displays the Help information by setting preferences in the Help Preferences view

Before you begin

To open the Help Preferences view, click Window > Preferences from the workbench menu bar, and click Help. The Help Preferences view is displayed.

Help Preferences view

The options available and their default settings are described in the table below. Select the options required, and click OK. The next time that any help information is displayed, the options are applied.

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.