Customizing AnswerBook2 Information

To customize the information you see in the browser, select the AnswerBook2 Options button. This brings up the Options Page, from which you can:

• Define your personal library.

• Choose the language in which you want on-screen instructions and Help displayed.

• Use the AnswerBook2 server administration GUI.

You need to redefine your preferences if you:

• Change documentation servers

• Change user names

• Switch browsers

Documentation server names are interpreted literally. For example, imaserver.eng.sun.com is considered to be a different server from imaserver.

Personal Library and Language Preferences functions are available only if your browser supports cookies and you have not turned off cookie support. Preferences expire after approximately one year and must be reset.

Defining Your Personal Library

An AnswerBook2 server might contain a large number of collections, each of which contains several books. You can choose whether or not to view all of the collections on the server, based on the settings in your Personal Library Preferences.

The Personal Library Preferences page lists the Complete Library (all collections) available on the current documentation server. To add collections to your Personal Library, click on the checkbox next to the collections you want displayed, then click Save Changes. The change appears immediately on your library page.

You need to redefine your Personal Library if you:

• Change documentation servers

• Change user names

• Switch browsers

Documentation server names are interpreted literally. For example, imaserver.eng.sun.com is considered to be a different server from imaserver.

The Personal Library Preferences function is available only if your browser supports cookies and you have not turned off cookie support. Personal Library Preferences expire after approximately one year and must be reset.

Specifying a Language

You use the Language Preferences page to tell the AnswerBook2 product to display its on-screen instructions and Help to you in a specific language, such as English. Changing your language preference does not automatically provide translated document collections; The documentation server displays document collections in the language in which they are created.

Some document collections look wrong unless the correct language preference is chosen. For example, a Japanese book will not display correctly unless the language preference is set to Japanese and the correct encoding (EUC or Shift-JIS) is selected.

To specify the language you want used for instructions and other on-screen information, on the Language Preferences page, select the icon that displays the language you want used and click Apply. For some languages, you might see an additional screen that asks you to choose a specific code set (or encoding) for that language. For more information about specifying a language encoding, see "Specifying Language Encoding".

You need to redefine your Language Preferences if you:

• Change documentation servers

• Change user names

• Switch browsers

Documentation server names are interpreted literally. For example, imaserver.eng.sun.com is considered to be a different server from imaserver.

The Language Preferences function is available only if your browser supports cookies and you have not turned off cookie support. Language Preferences expire after approximately one year and must be reset.

If your browser does not support cookies but allows you to set the browser's language and sends that information to the server, the AnswerBook2 interface uses the browser's language setting.

The AnswerBook2 interface defaults to the language of the server if any of the following conditions apply:

• You specify a language that the documentation server does not support.

• Your browser does not support cookies.

• Your browser does not send language information to the server.

Specifying Language Encoding

If you ask the server to display instructions and Help in a language that can be encoded differently (for example, in the Japanese language, you might want EUC or Shift-JIS encoding), the AnswerBook2 server asks you to specify the encoding. To respond to this query, click on the encoding scheme that reads "correctly" to you.

You might also have to change the encoding of your browser to match the encoding of the AnswerBook2 interface.

Accessing Server Administration Functions

The Options Page provides a link to the documentation server Administration interface for the current documentation server. If administrative access control is turned on for this server, the system prompts you for a valid administrator name and password. For more information about administering a documentation server, see Installing and Administering an AnswerBook2 Server.