Disabling Delivered Products or Subjects

If your organization does not use a particular product or subject, you can remove the corresponding help from the PeopleSoft Online Help.

To disable delivered products or subjects:

Delete, rename, or move the subject folder from the website structure.

This ensures that the files will not accidentally become visible to users.

See Subject Folder Level for information about how to locate this folder.

Remove the product or subject link from the product family navigation page.

To do this, modify the docroot/language/product family/index.html file that is located in the same product family folder as the subject that you are disabling.

Example: help-PB/eng/pt/index.html

This file includes the entire list of products and subjects tagged as an unordered list (ul). Each category is a list item (li) within the ul. The product and subject links are in a second ul nested in the li for the category. To remove a single product or subject, comment out the entire li tag within the second-level ul. In the following example, the “Getting Started with PeopleTools” subject is commented out (highlighted in bold).

<ul class="ListBullet" role="tree" aria-labelledby="i_product_h" id="sbjul_id">
 	<li class="ListBulletFolderP" role="treeitem" aria-expanded="true" id="itopic0_0l" tabindex="0">
        	<h3 class="PTPAGELETHEADER"><img src="../../images/ListBulletFolderPbopen.gif" alt="" style="margin-top:2px;"><span class="PSSRCHGROUPBOXLABEL">General Information</span></h3>
                <ul class="ListBullet" role="group" id="itopic0_0">
                 <!-- <li class="ListBulletNavPage1" tabindex="-1" id="li_itopic0_0_0">
                           <p class="BulletNavPage1Text" id="li_p_itopic0_0_0"><a id="li_a_itopic0_0_0" role="treeitem" href="tgst/index.html">Getting Started with PeopleTools</a></p>
                        </li> -->
                        <li class="ListBulletNavPage1" tabindex="-1" id="li_itopic0_0_1">
                           <p class="BulletNavPage1Text" id="li_p_itopic0_0_1"><a id="li_a_itopic0_0_1" role="treeitem" href="tacs/index.html">PeopleSoft Accessibility Guide</a></p>
                        </li>
                        <li class="ListBulletNavPage1" tabindex="-1" id="li_itopic0_0_2">
                           <p class="BulletNavPage1Text" id="li_p_itopic0_0_2"><a id="li_a_itopic0_0_2" role="treeitem" href="tupa/index.html">PeopleSoft Applications User’s Guide</a></p>
                        </li>
                </ul>
  </li>
...

You can also comment out an entire category li. In the preceding example, the category is “General Information.” To remove a category, you also need to modify the docroot/language/product family/info.xml file that is located in the same product family folder as the subject folder that you deleted.

Example: help-PB/eng/pt/info.xml

Comment out the entire topichead tag for the category. In the following example, the “General Information” category is commented out (highlighted in bold).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<productLine title="PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.54">
   <topicref title="PeopleTools Related Pages"
             href="bp_common/portlet_PeopleToolsRelatedPages.html"
             scope="local"
             type="pstopic"/>
   <!--<topichead title="General Information" href="tgst_subjnav.ditamap"/>-->
   <topichead title="Development&#xA;Tools" href="tape_subjnav.ditamap"/>
   <topichead title="Reporting and Analysis&#xA;Tools" href="tace_subjnav.ditamap"/>
   <topichead title="Integration Tools" href="tfee_subjnav.ditamap"/>
   <topichead title="Administration Tools" href="tadm_subjnav.ditamap"/>
   <topichead title="Lifecycle Management&#xA;Tools" href="tswu_subjnav.ditamap"/>
   <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.</copyright-statement>
</productLine>

Disable context-sensitive help for the subject folder.

To do this, modify the docroot/language/product family/helpid.txt file that is located in the same product family folder as the subject folder that you are disabling.

Example: help-PB/eng/pt/helpid.txt

Note: Make a backup copy of the helpid.txt file before making any changes, so that you can roll back to the previous version, if necessary.

Delete all destinations that contain the subject folder name. If a context ID has multiple destinations, remove the path and all associated titles and separators. If doing so leaves only one destination for a context ID, remove the titles for the remaining destination, as well.

The following example shows how to remove destinations for the tupa subject folder. The removed destinations have been crossed out to show that they should be deleted.
```
ICCopyCust	tupa/task_PersonalizingPages-0714c7
USER_CHANGE_PSWD	tupa/task_ChangingYourPassword-0714cf
CHANGE_PASSWORD	tupa/task_ChangingYourPassword-0714cf	PeopleSoft Applications User’s Guide	Changing Your Password	Changing Your Password	;tsec/task_WorkingWithPasswords-c076d8		Security Administration	Working With Passwords	Changing Passwords
```
The resulting file looks like this:
```
CHANGE_PASSWORD	tsec/task_WorkingWithPasswords-c076d8		
```
Recrawl the help files to generate a new search index that excludes the removed subject folder.

If you are using Oracle Secure Enterprise Search, see PeopleTools Installation for your database platform, ”Installing PeopleSoft Online Help.” If you use a different search engine, see the documentation for your chosen search engine.

Note: Some search engines have an option to automatically recrawl a site. If you have enabled that option, you do not need to recrawl the site manually.