Accessing Help

You can access Help either online when using TIBCO Business Studio™ - BPM Edition or by downloading it for use at any time.

Note: TIBCO provides Out-Of-Cycle updates of product documentation. If you have downloaded the help already, and want to be notified of these updates for TTIBCO Business Studio - BPM Edition, navigate to the current version of TIBCO Business Studio - BPM Edition documentation on the TIBCO Product Documentation page, and click Subscribe to subscribe to the RSS feed. When notified of an update you can re-download the html from the Product Documentation site to use the latest version. Copy it to the location of the existing help and access it from TIBCO Business Studio - BPM Edition, or download it as described below to replace previously downloaded help. Alternatively you can go back to Preferences and re-download the help from there.
Note: If your environment requires accessing of the internet via a proxy then go to Window > Preferences > General > Network Connections and configure the proxy settings.

Procedure

  1. Go to the Help menu.
  2. Select Download Offline TIBCO Help.... This guides the user to the appropriate Preferences page (Preferences > TIBCO Help > Content).
    • Content access strategy: Prefer offline help (if available). (default) is already selected, but online help will be used until help is downloaded. The alternative selection is Always use online help.
    • To define where you want the offline help to be located, Browse to the location in which you want to save the Base offline documentation folder and click Apply. You can click Location to go to the location that is defined.
    • Select the help you want to download and click Download and OK.
    • The help is downloaded to the location specified in the Base offline documentation field. If the Prefer offline Help (if available). content access strategy is selected then the downloaded help content will be used. Once the help is downloaded then the Help > Menu items will open the downloaded offline help.