What is the help.war in the preferenceharvester RTC Eclipse client plugin?
During playing around with the RTC Eclipse client features I found out that the metadata folder of the Eclipse workspace got pretty big.
The reason was [workspace root]\.metadata\.plugins\com.ibm.ccl.help.preferenceharvester\help\help.war
What is this file for. It seems to be something for the Eclipse internal help system. But what is the file used for and how couldI I possibly switch it off?
Thank you
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Hi Marko,
When you first installed RTC Eclipse Client, you probably selected "Download help and access the content locally". The help.war file is the offline content of our help.
If you no longer want to use a local help file, you can switch to use our online help. You computer must have access to internet. Here's how to do it:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSCP65_4.0.6/com.ibm.help.common.rational.remote.doc/topics/t_change_location_of_help.html?cp=SSCP65_4.0.6&lang=en
When you first installed RTC Eclipse Client, you probably selected "Download help and access the content locally". The help.war file is the offline content of our help.
If you no longer want to use a local help file, you can switch to use our online help. You computer must have access to internet. Here's how to do it:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSCP65_4.0.6/com.ibm.help.common.rational.remote.doc/topics/t_change_location_of_help.html?cp=SSCP65_4.0.6&lang=en
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you probably selected "Download help and access the content locally".
Where is this selection done? In the client in the installation manager?
This is one of the Installation Manager steps.
We did not use the installation manager to install the client plugins into our Eclipse based IDE.
Do you maybe know whether this can be disabled without having an installation manager?
Hi Marko,
Sorry for the confusion. I mentioned IM, because this is one way to have this option enabled in Eclipse Client, but I didnt confirm that necessarily you used that way.
You can change the way you access "help" anytime, please check this link for further instructions:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSCP65_4.0.6/com.ibm.help.common.rational.remote.doc/topics/t_change_location_of_help.html?cp=SSCP65_4.0.6&lang=en
Hi Allexandri,
there was no confusion :)
But still your provided link does not give a hint on how to disable downloading the help.war file. Or is this done always, if a remote help is configured.
You are asked to install the help locally if you enable the following Java VM switch when starting the Eclipse client:
-Dhelp.type.default=local
Then automatically the remote IBM help server is disabled whereas the local one is enabled. The opposite happens if the value is "remote". If you set it to "custom" than a custom default server can be specified via VM property "help.URL.default".