You can modify your help preferences so that you access
help content from different locations: from the Internet (remote help),
from your local computer (local help), or from a local intranet server
(enterprise help).
Before you begin
If you plan to access help content from the Internet or
to download it to your local computer, make sure that you can connect
to the Internet. After downloading help content to your local computer,
you no longer require an Internet connection to access the help.
If
you plan to access help content from a local server, you must know
the host server URL, the path to the help content, and the port address
for the intranet server.
If you have downloaded the content,
when you start your product later and you happen to be connected to
the Internet, the local help is updated automatically.
Procedure
- With your product open, click . The Preferences window opens.
- Expand Help, and click Content.
A window similar to the following example opens:
- The location of the help content is controlled by enabling
the server URL in the table as follows:
- To access help from the Internet, select the row of the table
with the product name, and click Enable. For
most products, this is the first row and is enabled by default.
- To download help and access it from your local computer, select
all the rows except the one with Local, and
click Disable. This will disable all remote
help content. Select the Local entry, and click Enable.
If you don't have an internet connection, you need to perform Downloading and installing help content locally.
- To access help from an intranet server (enterprise help), follow
these steps:
- Click New.
- In the Add new information center dialog
box, enter a Name for the help and provide
the URL to the information center, as shown
in the example that follows.
- Click Test Connection to ensure that the
URL is valid.
- Ensure that any other help information centers listed are disabled.
- Click OK to save the settings.
Results
If you decided to access help from your local computer,
the help content is downloaded to your computer when you restart the
product while an Internet connection is available.
Note: All sites
that are used to download content are saved to Favorites
Sites and the Favorite sites are used to determine if
updates are needed. To view these sites, filter the Site
List.
If you decided to access help from
the Internet or from an intranet help server, the content is available
immediately when you access product help.