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<h1>Help Content preferences</h1>
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Help topics from remote servers can be included seamlessly into the local help system.
Use the
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<strong>Help &gt; Content</strong></a>
preference page to configure one or more remote servers from which to include content.
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Button</P>
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Description</P>
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<span style="font-weight: 400">Include local help only</span></TH>
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<span style="font-weight: 400">Remote help content is not enabled.</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400">Include remote help and give local help priority</span></TH>
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<span style="font-weight: 400">The help system will show locally installed help contents as well as help
contents from the information centers specified in the table. If the same page exists both locally and
on the remote information center the local page will be shown.</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400">Include remote help and give it priority</span></TH>
<TH align="left">
<span style="font-weight: 400">The help system will show locally installed help contents as well as help
contents from the information centers specified in the table. If the same page exists both locally and
on the remote information center the remote page will be shown.</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400">New/Edit/Delete</span></TH>
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<span style="font-weight: 400">Add, edit or delete a remote data source</span></TH>
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<span style="font-weight: 400">View Properties</span></TH>
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<span style="font-weight: 400">View the properties for this remote data source</span></TH>
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<span style="font-weight: 400">Test Connection</span></TH>
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<span style="font-weight: 400">Tests to see if it is possible to connect to this
host/port combination</span></TH>
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<span style="font-weight: 400">Disable/Enable</span></TH>
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<span style="font-weight: 400">Allows a data source to be disabled so the help
system will not try to read topics from that source.</span></TH>
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<P>Here is what the Help Content preferences page looks like:&nbsp;&nbsp;
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<img src="../images/help_preference_content.png" alt="Help Content Preference Page" border="0" ></P>
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Pressing the &quot;New&quot; button opens a dialog to add a new information center, these are the
fields that can be entered in the Add new information center dialog.&nbsp;
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<span style="font-weight: 400">Name</span></TH>
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<span style="font-weight: 400">A name for this information center</span></TH>
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<span style="font-weight: 400">URL</span></TH>
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<span style="font-weight: 400">Specifies the url of the information center server</span>
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&nbsp;<img border="0" src="../images/help_preference_infocenter.png" alt="Picture of the 'Add new information center' dialog" ></P>
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<img border="0" src="../images/ngrelc.png" alt="Related concepts" ><br>
<a href="../concepts/help.htm">Help</a><br>
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<img border="0" src="../images/ngrelt.png" alt="Related tasks" ><br>
<a href="../tasks/help.xhtml">Accessing help</a><br>
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<img border="0" src="../images/ngrelr.png" alt="Related reference" ><br>
<a href="help_preferences.htm">Help preferences</a><br>
<a href="ref-42.htm">Web Browser preferences</a><br>
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