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.
Before you begin
Typically, this task is done on a computer
where the product is installed. If you are installing the help on
an intranet server where the product is not installed, you must first deploy
the help system infrastructure on that server. Then, you can
install the local help.
About this task
This task can be used to install help content
on your computer or on a server. You use the Local Help Updater to
install local help content on your computer from a remote information
center, as shown in this graphic.
Procedure
- On a computer with Internet access, open
the Rational help download site and download the
compressed help content file for your product and version. The file
has this format: product_abbreviation.version_updateSite.zip.
- If the computer you downloaded the compressed
help content file to is not the one you are deploying the help content
to, copy the compressed archive file to that computer. Do
not extract the file.
- In a browser, open the Help Administration
page by typing a URL that is in this format: http://server:port/help-name/updater/admin.jsp
- Select the Update Help Content tab.
- On the Local Help Updater page,
click the
Add internal site icon.
- In the Add Internal Site window,
select Local, enter a Name for
the help content, and click Browse to select
the compressed archive file you downloaded.
- Click OK in the Add
Internal Site window.
- In the Available content section
of the Local Help Updater page, expand the site
you added. The list of sites in the
Available content section are filtered to display your Favorites by
default, which include internal sites you have added or public sites
that you have installed content from. When the available
content list is not filtered, internal sites are added to the end
of the Available content list.
- Select the help content features to install,
and click Install.
- When the installation finishes, verify the
installation by opening the help in the product by clicking .
Results
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.
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:- If other users are accessing this help
content from the products installed on their computers, provide them
with the server, the port, and the path to the help system. Ensure
that the server you provide is not localhost.
Example:
http://server.ibm.com:8080/help-name/index.jsp- Server: server.ibm.com
- Port: 8080
- Path: /help-name