If you must access help content from a computer
that does not have an Internet connection, you can install the help
content from a file that you can obtain from the IBM® Local Help System Updater website. You
must download the help content file by using a computer that has Internet
access and copy the file to the computer without Internet access.
About this task
This task can be used to install help content
on your computer or on a server.
Procedure
- On a computer with Internet access, download
the compressed help content file for your product and version from
the Help download site at 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.
- On the computer where you are installing the
help content, copy this compressed archive file. Do not
extract the file.
- With your product open, click .
Note: If you are installing the help content on a server where
the product is not installed, you can access the Local Help Updater
by opening the following Help Administration page URL in a browser: http://server:port/help/updater/admin.jsp.
Then select the Local Help Updater tab.
- On the Local Help Updater page,
click the Plus sign (+).
- On the Add Internal Site dialog
box, click Local, and enter or browse to the
location of the compressed archive file in the File field.
- Click OK in the Add
Internal Site window.
- On the Local Help Updater page,
expand this site in the Site list.
- Select the help content features that you
want to install from the list that is provided, and click Install. A progress bar tracks the progress of the installation.
- When the installation finishes, verify the
installation by opening the help in the product by clicking .
Results
If you were installing the content
locally to access from the product that is installed on your computer,
the help that you selected is installed and is available from your
product.
If you downloaded content from a remote site, that
site was added to the Favorites Sites list.
You can filter the Available Content site to
display only the Favorites Sites.
What to do next
If you downloaded the help
to either a server or your computer:- You can choose to enable automatic
updates. By default, the Automatic Updates option
is not selected in the Local Help Updater. If
you select the Automatic Updates option, you
receive updated content from the help update site (ibm.com) and the
sites in the Favorites Sites list when the
help archive file is restarted and an internet connection exists.
If you choose to leave the Automatic Updates check
box cleared, you can manually update content.
If you downloaded the help to a server:- Provide users with the server, the port, and the path
to the help system to enter in the Help System Configuration page
in IBM Installation Manager.
Ensure that the server you provide is not localhost.
Example: For
http://server.ibm.com:8080/help/index.jsp,
the values are:
- Server: server.ibm.com
- Port: 8080
- Path: /help