Changing the location of online help

Actuate provides online help for Information Console using the internet by default. To access online documentation when the internet is not available, you must change the help location by configuring web.xml. First, extract the documentation from aic_doc.zip from the Actuate download site into your Information Console EAR or WAR file. Change the help location specified in web.xml to a web application folder. Then, redeploy the Information Console application.

How to switch the help location for Information Console

Use the following procedure to switch the help location for Information Console.

1 Copy aic_doc.zip from the Actuate download site. Extract the contents of aic_doc.zip into a temporary directory. The online help files are located in the <temporary directory>\help directory.

2 Using a UTF-8 compliant code editor, open the web.xml configuration file in the Information Console EAR or WAR file.

3 Navigate to the lines that define AC_DOC_BASE, similar to the following code:

<param-name>AC_DOC_BASE</param-name>

<param-value>http://prod.actuate.com/documentation/ihub31</param-value>

4 Change the AC_DOC_BASE value to local, as shown in the following code:

<param-name>AC_DOC_BASE</param-name>

<param-value>local</param-value>

5 Save web.xml.

6 Recompress your EAR or WAR file using the Java jar utility and redeploy it to the application server or servlet engine as an application.

7 Restart the application server or servlet engine that runs Information Console.