Installing help content locally from the public site

If you have internet access, you can install help content locally from the public information center and receive updates of the content when it becomes available.

About this task

This task can be used to install help content on your computer or on a server.

Procedure

  1. With your product open, click Help > Local Help Updater.
    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.
  2. In the site list, expand the product that you would like to install the content for.
  3. 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.
  4. When the installation finishes, open the help in the product by clicking Help > Help Contents.

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

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