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The topic that you requested is not available. The link might be wrong or the corresponding help topic might not be installed. By default, this product is configured to access help topics from the IBM documentation website. If you need to work offline, you need to download and install the help contents to your local system.

You can find the documentation for IBM Business Process Manager in the IBM Knowledge Center at http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSFPJS_8.5.6/. If you use the embedded help system that is installed with the IBM BPM product, you are using this site to access the current documentation. For example, if you click the Help link in IBM Process Designer, the embedded help system accesses the help documentation at that link.

If you are working behind a firewall, you might find that links from the product to help files do not resolve. In that case, you need to either revise the proxy settings in the product or download and install the help contents to your local system.

Reconfiguring proxy settings

In the WebSphere Application Server admin console, set the http.proxyHost and http.proxyPort properties to point to the proxy host and port that are in use. You can find instructions here: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v8r5/topic/com.ibm.websphere.nd.doc/ae/twbs_configaddhttppropertiesadmin.html and http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v8r5/topic/com.ibm.websphere.nd.doc/ae/txml_configaddhttppropertieswsadmin.html

Downloading and installing IBM Business Process Manager documentation

If you need to work offline, you need to download the documentation files and install them into the same location as the IBM BPM product. Downloading the documentation files requires a working Internet connection. When there is a new release of the product, you need to update your installed documentation to keep it current.

To install the documentation for IBM Business Process Manager Standard to a local directory, follow these steps. If you are using IBM Business Process Manager Advanced, you must follow these steps and then install the documentation for IBM Integration Designer separately, with IBM Installation Manager.

  1. In a browser, open the following web address. http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/dmndhelp/downloads/v8r5m6/localhelp_bpm856.zip.
  2. Save the file to a local temp directory.
  3. Extract the contents of the compressed file to your IBM BPM installation directory by entering the following commands:
    1. cd BPM_install_directory (where BPM_install_directory represents the directory where you previously installed the IBM Business Process Manager Standard product).
    2. unzip localhelp_bpm856.zip. This command installs the documentation into BPM_install_directory/BPM/Lombardi/doc.local.
  4. If you need to update the documentation later, then you first need to remove the documentation that you previously installed locally.
    1. In a command window, enter cd BPM_install_directory.
    2. To remove the files, for Windows, enter del BPM/Lombardi/doc.local; for UNIX, enter rm -fr BPM/Lombardi/doc.local.
    3. After you remove the old files in that way, follow steps 1 - 3 to install the update files.
  5. Restart your IBM Business Process Manager server. The documentation is available from the Help links of the various IBM BPM components (such as Process Designer and Process Center).