Re: Apple Help and remote help content?
Re: Apple Help and remote help content?
- Subject: Re: Apple Help and remote help content?
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:04:37 -0800
- Thread-topic: Apple Help and remote help content?
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 18:00:00 -0500, Phil <email@hidden> said:
>I've gotten the basic help system working locally (i.e. I can open my
>applications help, browse the various pages I've created, etc... all
>the expected functionality is there) but can't seem to figure out what
>I've done wrong when I attempt to go with a network-based help
>system. I believe I've followed the correct sequence of steps:
>
>1) Open Help Indexer->Preferences
>2) Enable 'Use remote root for missing files and updates'
>3) Enable 'Prefer network files to local files'
>4) Enter the URL to the top level help directory on the server
>5) Reindex my content
>6) Rebuild the app
>7) FTP the 'updated' content up to the server (right now it's just the
>same files with some text indicating 'this is from the server' in my
>top-level help page)
>
>The problem I'm having is that the help system isn't checking with the
>server (it did the first time I tried it but I had some settings
>problems which have since been corrected) so the local content is
>always being used... are there any debugging/logging techniques to
>finding out what the help system thinks is going on and/or wrong? One
>thing I'm thinking since it attempted to check the first time: are
>there any default caching/timeout settings that would cause this
>behavior that I could change and/or disable while testing this out?
>(I haven't set anything in my pages so they are fairly vanilla HTML
>right now)
Good thread over in the better list on this topic:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/apple-help-authoring/2004/May/msg00018.html
m.
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