Use the Preferences Help pages to set the help preferences for CICS Explorer™ and change the way that the CICS Explorer displays the help information.
When you request help, by default, context help is displayed in a dynamic help view, and help contents is displayed in a new window. You can use the Preferences Help page to change these settings.
Option | Description | Default |
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Open Help search | This option defines how the Help Search is displayed.
The choices are:
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In the Dynamic Help view. |
Open Help view documents | This option defines how help topics are displayed.
The choices are:
|
In place. |
Open help contents | This option defines how the Help Contents is
displayed. The choices are:
|
In the Help browser |
Option | Description | Default |
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Open window context help | This option defines how the context (F1) help
is displayed. The choices are:
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In the Dynamic Help view. |
Open dialog context help | This option defines how context help for dialogs
is displayed. The choices are:
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In a dialog tray. |
When you do a search in the Help Contents, you can retrieve additional help information from remote information centers provided that they are running on Eclipse version 3.3 or above. You use the Help Content page to provide the location of a remote information center.
Option | Description | Default |
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Include local help only | If checked, this option disables the use of remote help content. The rest of the fields on the page are not enabled if this option is checked. | Checked |
Include remote help and give local help priority | The help system shows locally installed help contents as well as help contents from the information centers specified in the table. If the same page exists both locally and on the remote information center the local page is shown. | Not checked |
Include remote help and give it priority | The help system will show locally installed help contents as well as help contents from the information centers specified in the table. If the same page exists both locally and on the remote information center the remote page will be shown. | Not checked |
In the example screen capture below, remote help information is retrieved from the information center located at http://help.eclipse.org/help33/