Help

On the Help preferences page, you can indicate how to display help books.

Option

Description

Default

Documentation is installed

Indicate whether the documentation you want to view is installed on your local machine or on a server.

Locally

Remote server URL

If the documentation is stored on a server, enter the URL specifying the location of the remotely-stored  documentation.

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Advanced options    
Logging Options

This option indicates the level of logging to report.  Help components can report information, warnings, and errors (related to the installation of the component files) to the user.  

Choose from the following logging options:

  • Errors only
  • Warnings and errors
  • Everything, including information-only messages

 

Errors only

Internal Help Server Configuration

In most cases, you will not have to change the default option of Automatic.  

The Workbench automatically detects your IP address and uses the best available port.  The HTTP server indicated here stores local help pages; these values are used to start the internal server.  

Options:

  • Automatic
  • Manual - if you specify this option you need to indicate the following additional options:

    Local Help Server IP Address:  must be a valid address on your machine; you may specify multiple addresses.

    Local Help Server Port:  must to be an available port.

Automatic

 

Here is what the Help preferences page looks like:  

Help Preference Page

 

Related reference
Help View

 
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