Help preferences

On the command link Help preferences page, you can indicate how to display help information.

Option

Description

Default

Open Help Search Configures whether Help/Search (and Help/Index if configured) opens the help view or help contents. In the dynamic help view
Open help view documents This option allows you to determine whether the documents selected in the help view will be opened in-place, in the editor area or in a browser. in-place
Open Help Contents Allows you to open help contents in an external web browser or in the Eclipse help browser. Use "Web Browser" preference page to select browser to use. Off
Open window context help This option allows you to determine whether the window context help will be opened in a dynamic help view or in an infopop. in a dynamic help view
Open dialog context help This option allows you to determine whether the dialog context help will be opened in a dynamic help section of help view or in an infopop. in dialog tray

Here is what the Help preferences page looks like:  

Help Preference Page

Related concepts
Help
Help view

Related tasks
Accessing help
Help display settings

Related reference
Help Content preferences
Web Browser preferences