Downloading help content from the Help download site

You can download and update help content from the Help download site and provide access to the content on a local server. This help server can be the product server or another intranet server just for the help.

About this task

Before you can provide intranet access to the help for the product, you must download the help content to a local server.

Procedure

  1. On a computer with Internet access, obtain the compressed help-content file for your product from the Help download site by going to http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/rationalsdp/documentation/updatesites/. The file has this format: prod_coden.n_updateSite.zip, where prod_code is the product code and n.n is the version number.
  2. Download this file, save the file to your intranet server, and then extract the file contents.
  3. With the product open on a computer that is connected to the intranet, click Help > Local Help Updater. The Updater site opens.
  4. Click the Internal Sites tab, click Add (+), and enter the intranet server location of the extracted the site\site.xml file that you extracted in step 2. For example, if your extracted files are in c:\myHelp, then enter c:\myHelp\site\site.xml.
  5. Click OK in the Add Internal Site dialog box, and then select this site in the list of Internal Sites. The Available Features provides a list of the help that is available for download. Depending on your network connection speed, generating this list might take a few minutes.
  6. Select the help content that you need, and click Install. The help content is downloaded and installed. A progress bar opens and tracks the status of the download.
  7. When the download is completed, open the help in the product by selecting Help > Help Contents.

Results

The help that you selected is installed on your computer. The help content is updated automatically when the product is started while an Internet connection is available.

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