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local Eclipse help with remote content [message #623834]

Tue, 29 December 2009 20:55

Juergen Weber

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Registered: July 2009

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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 #623843 is a reply to message #623834]

Fri, 08 January 2010 22:20

Chris Goldthorpe

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Registered: July 2009

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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 #623849 is a reply to message #623843]

Tue, 12 January 2010 09:33

Juergen Weber

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Thanks, that's great, I got it working.

Still better were if you could set a base url to the toc instead for each html source:

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

Greetings,
Juergen

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Re: local Eclipse help with remote content [message #623851 is a reply to message #623849]

Wed, 13 January 2010 00:36

Chris Goldthorpe

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Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

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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