How to change the Help system from Eclipse back to Compiled HTML

Answer

Steps to reconfigure Rational DOORS to use the chm help system:

You will need the doors.chm file provided with DOORS 9.2 in order to perform this manipulation.

Note: The files created here do not need to be placed directly under C:\. If you placed them in an other location, make sure to adapt the steps provided.

1. Locate in <DOORSHOME>\lib\dxl\config the file baseWindowMenu.inc
   
   
   
2. Locate the line:
   createItem(alwaysOn, helpContentsAndIndex, LS_("String_Contents_and_Index",NLSTEMP_("Contents and Index")), 'C',keyF1, modKeyNone,null ,null,LS_("String_Open_online_help",NLSTEMP_("Open online help.")), null)
   
   
   
3. Comment it out and replace it by:
   createItem(alwaysOn,"Content and Index", 'C', keyF1, modKeyNone, null, null, null, null,"C:\\newHelp.dxl")
   
   
4. Repeat step 2 for the file <DOORSHOME>\lib\dxl\config\helpmenu.inc
   
   
   
5. Create the text file C:\newHelp.dxl containing the following text:
   system "c:\\doors.bat"
   
   
6. Create the text file C:\doors.bat containing the following:
   start  C:\doors.chm
exit
   
   
7. Place the doors.chm file provided with DOORS 9.2 in C:\
   
   
   
   Every subsequent call to the online help in DOORS will now result in DOORS calling the chm help system instead of the Eclipse help system.