Help

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.

Help page

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.

A screen capture of the Preferences Help view
Table 1. Help Preferences Options
Option Description Default
Use external browser Click this option to display the CICS Explorer Help Contents in an external browser, such as Internet Explorer or Firefox. If this option is not selected, the Help Contents is displayed in a separate Eclipse window. Not checked
Open window context help This option determines whether the window context help is opened in a dynamic help view or in an infopop. An infopop is a small pop-up window that displays context-sensitive help and links to related help topics. An example of a Help Infopop is shown below. In a dynamic help view
Open dialog context help This option determines whether the dialog context help is opened in a dynamic help section of the Help view or in an infopop. In a dialog tray

An example Help Infopop:

Help Content page

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.

Table 2. Help Content Options
Option Description Default
Include help content from a remote infocenter If checked, this option enables the use of remote help content. The rest of the fields on the page are only enabled if this option is checked. Not checked
Host Specifies the host name of the system that is running the information center remote help content. This must be a host name and cannot be a URL, that is it cannot start with "http://"  
Path Specifies the context root of the information center application running on the host. /help
Port If "Use default port" is selected, port 80 will be used to access remote content on the host. To use any other port the "Use port" option must be selected and the correct port must be specified in the text field. 80

In the example screen capture below, remote help information is retrieved from the information center located at http://help.eclipse.org/help33/

A screen capture of the Preferences Help Content view showing a value of help.eclipse.org in the Host field, and /help33 in the Path field