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local Eclipse help with remote content [message #505352] Tue, 29 December 2009 15:55 Go to next message
Juergen Weber is currently offline Juergen Weber
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Hi,

I understand you can either have local Eclipse help [1] or access Infocenter on an external server with a browser [2].

I think the best were to have the good GUI of local Eclipse help with remote content. Can you link to HTML files on a web server from a local toc.xml?

Thanks,
Juergen

[1] http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article.php?file=Article-Add ingHelpToRCP/index.html
[2] http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ecli psehelp/index.html

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Re: local Eclipse help with remote content [message #506710 is a reply to message #505352] Fri, 08 January 2010 17:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Chris Goldthorpe is currently offline Chris Goldthorpe
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Juergen Weber wrote on Tue, 29 December 2009 15:55
Hi,

I understand you can either have local Eclipse help [1] or access Infocenter on an external server with a browser [2].

I think the best were to have the good GUI of local Eclipse help with remote content. Can you link to HTML files on a web server from a local toc.xml?

Thanks,
Juergen




Yes you can specify the hrefs in the toc as fully qualified URLs such as http://www.eclipse.org/forums

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Re: local Eclipse help with remote content [message #507128 is a reply to message #506710] Tue, 12 January 2010 04:33 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Juergen Weber is currently offline Juergen Weber
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Thanks, that's great, I got it working.

But, the toc.xml itself cannot be pulled from the web server?

Also, it would be nice if you could set a base url in the toc instead for each html source:

<toc label="My Example Book" topic="index.html" baseurl="http://myserver/help/myapp/">



Greetings,
Juergen

[Updated on: Mon, 11 January 2010 23:41]

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Re: local Eclipse help with remote content [message #507340 is a reply to message #507128] Tue, 12 January 2010 19:36 Go to previous message
Chris Goldthorpe is currently offline Chris Goldthorpe
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Juergen Weber wrote on Tue, 12 January 2010 04:33
Thanks, that's great, I got it working.

But, the toc.xml itself cannot be pulled from the web server?

Also, it would be nice if you could set a base url in the toc instead for each html source:

<toc label="My Example Book" topic="index.html" baseurl="http://myserver/help/myapp/">



Greetings,
Juergen



You can also have a remote table of contents. If you go to the help / remote content preference page you can specify an infocenter to use that will provide content for you. For example you can set http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp as your remote infocenter and then the documents from that site will appear in your local help system.

This feature is intended to allow products to have some or all of their documentation provided from a remote server.

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