Configuring a Web Browser to View Help Topics

The context-sensitive help system is implemented in HTML and JavaScript. Invoking help automatically launches a Web browser (or opens a new tab in an existing Web browser window). Any JavaScript-enabled Web browser can display AccuRev GUI help topics. By default, the operating system’s default Web browser is invoked.

You can specify the complete pathname of the Web browser to be invoked with the AccuRev preference AC_BROWSER. Each user can use the setpref command to set this preference. For example:

accurev setpref AC_BROWSER "C:\Program Files\Opera\Opera.exe"

The preference is stored in file preferences.xml in the .accurev subdirectory of the user’s home directory.

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• Configuring Internet Explorer as the help topic browser

  On Windows machines, you must set the AC_BROWSER preference to configure Microsoft Internet Explorer as the Web browser to be used for context-sensitive help, even if it is your default browser. Example:

  accurev setpref AC_BROWSER "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE"