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Question
How do you confugre IBM Rational DOORS to use the Compiled HTML(CHM) based help system instead of the Eclipse based help system introduced in version 9.3?
Cause
With release 9.3 the help system was changed from the CHM based system to use Eclipse. In some environments it is not possible to deploy Eclipse based help system but you still need to use help from the Rational DOORS application.
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.
- Locate in
<DOORSHOME>\lib\dxl\config
the filebaseWindowMenu.inc
- 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)
- Comment it out and replace it by:
createItem(alwaysOn,"Content and Index", 'C', keyF1, modKeyNone, null, null, null, null,"C:\\newHelp.dxl")
- Repeat step 2 for the file
<DOORSHOME>\lib\dxl\config\helpmenu.inc
- Create the text file
C:\newHelp.dxl
containing the following text:
system "c:\\doors.bat"
- Create the text file
C:\doors.bat
containing the following:
start C:\doors.chm
exit
- Place the
doors.chm
file provided with DOORS 9.2 inC:\
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.
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Modified date:
01 May 2020
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