- Installation and Configuration Guide
- Installing and Configuring Help Locally or on a Web Server
- Setting Up Help Locally or on a Web Server
Setting Up Help Locally or on a Web Server
To install and configure Oracle Smart View for Office help locally or on a web server:
- Obtain the help zip file for this release from My Oracle Support.
- Extract the contents to either a local folder on the computer where Smart View is installed or to a folder accessible by your users on an HTTP web server in your organization.
For example:
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Extract the contents locally to:
C:\Oracle\SmartView\
The extraction adds an additional folder named
smartview_help
. The result is:C:\Oracle\SmartView\smartview_help
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Extract the contents to a web server:
http://webServerHost:webServerPort/pathToHelpFiles
The extractions adds
smartview_help
afterpathToHelpFiles
. The result is:http://webServerHost:webServerPort/pathToHelpFiles/smartview_help
Under the
smartview_help
folder, there are 28 language folders; for example:C:\Oracle\SmartView \smartview_help \ar \cs \da \de \el \en \es \fi \fr \fr_CA \he \hu \it \ja \ko \nl \no \pl \pt \pt_BR \ro \ru \sk \sv \th \tr \zh_CN \zh_TW
The following language folders contain translated versions of the Smart View help:
\de \es \fr \it \ja \ko \nl \pt_BR \zh_CN \zh_TW
The remaining language folders contain the English version of the help. When you run Smart View in one of those languages (for example, Swedish) and you click a button for Help, the English help is displayed.
Additionally, the English folder contains a copy of the help in PDF format,
smartview_user.pdf
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- Modify the
helpurlcontext
property in the Smart Viewproperties.xml
file:- In your Smart View installation, navigate to the
SmartView\cfg
folder. - Make a backup copy of the original
properties.xml
file. - Open
properties.xml
for editing. - Modify the
helpurlcontext
property, providing the path to the folder that is parent to the language folders using the following syntax:-
If installing locally, provide the path to the folder that is parent to the language folders using the following syntax:
<helpurlcontext>file:///parent_language_folder_path/</helpurlcontext>
Tip:
Use forward slashes in the syntax and ensure that you enter a final forward slash (/) after the parent language folder path that you provide.
Using the example from step 2, after extracting the zip contents to
C:\Oracle\SmartView
, thesmartview_help
folder is the parent folder of the language folders. Thus, you would modify the parent_language_folder_path placeholder as follows:<helpurlcontext>file:///C:/Oracle/SmartView/smartview_help/</helpurlcontext>
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If installing on a web server, provide the path to the folder that is parent to the language folders using the following syntax:
<helpurlcontext>http://webServerHost:webServerPort/pathToHelpFiles/smartview_help/</helpurlcontext>
Tip:
Use forward slashes in the syntax and ensure that you enter a final forward slash (/) after the parent language folder path that you provide.
Using the example from step 2 and substituting
user_documentation
forpathToHelpFiles
, after extracting the zip contents tohttp://abcxyzco.com:12345/user_documentation
, thesmartview_help
folder is the parent folder of the language folders. For example:<helpurlcontext>http://abcxyzco.com:12345/user_documentation/smartview_help/</helpurlcontext>
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- In your Smart View installation, navigate to the
- Restart your Microsoft Office applications and access the help from the Smart View ribbon.
- Repeat this procedure for each computer that requires Smart View local help.