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 using a computer that has Internet access and copy the file to
the computer without Internet access.
Before you begin
Important:
You must have local help enabled
as described in the "To download help and access it from your local
computer" section of
Changing the location of help content.
Procedure
- On a computer with Internet access, obtain the compressed
help-content file for your product 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 that has your product installed, but does
not have Internet access, copy this file and extract the file contents.
- With your product and help open, click or , depending on your version. Click the Local Help Updater button
if it appears and the Updater site opens.
- On the Local Help Updater page, click
the Plus sign (+), click Local, and
enter the location of the extracted 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.
- Click OK in the Add Internal
Site window, and then select this site in the Sites list. Available Features provides a list
of the help that is available for download. Depending on your computer
speed, generating this list might take a few minutes.
- Click OK in the Add Internal
Site window.
- On the Local Help Updater page, expand
this site in the Sites list.
- Select the help content features that you want to install
from the list provided, and click Install. A progress bar tracks the progress of the installation.
- When the installation finishes, open the help in the product
by clicking .
Results
The help that you selected is installed on your computer.
The help content is updated automatically whenever you start the product
while an Internet connection is available.