These topics include details for using the help system in your product. The topics do not include information about using the IBM® Documentation help system. For information about using Documentation, see the Help for IBM Documentation.
Overview of the product help system
The IBM Rational® help system is the gateway to information that you need to use your Rational product. The help system contains topics that you can use in various situations and provides tools that you can use to find required information.
Features in the product help system
The help system contains the information that you can learn about and effectively use your IBM Rational software. To browse topics, use the navigation features of the help system.
Identifying and bookmarking URLs for individual topics in the product help system
Learn how to identify and bookmark URLs to individual topics in the product help.
Searching help content in the product help system
The help search is a full-text search that supports exact phrases, word stems (in English and German), wildcard characters, and Boolean operators. You can control whether search results are highlighted and how they are displayed in the Search Results list.
Printing topics and creating PDFs
In the product help system, you can print a section of topics at the same time. With a local PDF distiller, you can also print your topics directly to a PDF file.
There are several ways to customize help content. You can link to IBM Documentation content by using the Eclipse remote help capability. You can filter contents by using the Eclipse help capability. You can also add your own content to the help system.