Change the portal page help

 

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WebSphere Portal provides help information for the portal site when users click the help link provided in the toolbar. You should customize this help page to reflect the content and information for the organization's site. Help topics should address the needs of the portal users and not provide access to information about administering the portal. The help page provided by WebSphere Portal provides definitions for common portal terms, such as portlet and skin. You should either keep these definitions for the portal users or provide the own.

 

Location of the help

The portal help link must be located in a theme JSP so that it can always be accessible from any page in the portal. After installation, WebSphere Portal provides the help link in banner_toolbar.jsp in the /themes/html/IBM directory. The markup for the help link is identified by the following comment:

            
    <%-- help --%>

For customized themes, this help link could be placed in other theme JSP files. To provide site-specific help, we can edit the target of the help link or edit the help source provided by WebSphere Portal.

  • To change the help link, edit the link in the JSPs that are provided for each theme that you use. The following example shows the default help link target:

       
        href="<%= wpsDocURL %>/help/index.html"
    

  • To edit the help source, edit the portal help file at the following location:

 

Change the portal help window size

By default, the help link sets the portal help window width to 800 pixels and the height to 600 pixels, using the JavaScript onClick event handler of the anchor tag. To change the window size...

  1. Locate the markup for the help link.

  2. In the corresponding anchor tag, look for the width=800,height=600 values in the window.open() method.

  3. Change these values to the desired width and height values for the help window.

 

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