Managing Connection Profiles to the Server – Product Manuals

Click the Administration on the left menu cog on the navigation bar.
Click Server Administration in the Administration area.
Click Integration Settings in the Server Administration area.
Select Servers > Integrations in the left navigation menu.
Click Context Sensitive Help Connection Profiles.

Perform one of the following options:

If You Want To	Then
Create a new connection profile	Click New Connection Profile. NOTE: You can specify as many connection profiles as necessary. You must specify a connection for each instance of the application for which you want to provide context-sensitive help. Go to the next step.
View the connection	Select the connection profile you want to view. Go to the next step.
Edit the connection	Select the connection profile you want to edit. Click Edit Settings. Go to the next step.
Delete the connection	Select the connection profile you want to delete. Click the drop-down arrow to the right of the action button. Click Delete in the left navigation pane. Click OKDelete to confirm the deletion.

Complete/review the following as available:

Field	Description
Name	Enter the name of the connection profile.
Description	Enter details describing the profile.
Connector	This field only displays when creating or editing connection profile information. Select the type of connector for context-sensitive help from the drop-down list.
Application	Select the application for context-sensitive help from the drop-down list. This list will change based on the Connector that is selected. If the Connector is Infor, use the following guidelines to select the Application: If you are using Infor's Smart Help solution for Ming.le, select Smart Help. If you are using any Infor application inside Ming.le, select Infor Ming.le. If you are using a supported Infor application without Ming.le, select one of the other available values.
Applications Help Web Agent Profile Setting	This field only displays when viewing connection profile information for Oracle. This value is pasted into the Applications Help Web Agent profile setting for the end user in Oracle E-Business. This value is generated by the application and is not configurable.
Applications Help Web Agent Profile Setting for Authors	This field only displays when viewing connection profile information for Oracle. This value is pasted into the Application Help Web Agent profile setting for the designated author in Oracle E-Business. This value is generated by the application and is not configurable.
URL	This field only displays when viewing connection profile information for ANCILE Help Launchpad, PeopleSoft, SAP Portal, Siebel, and Web-Custom Integration. This value is generated by the application and is not configurable.
SR13 PlainHTMLHttp Server Name	This field only displays when viewing connection profile information for SAP CRM. This value is generated by the application and is not configurable.
SR13 PlainHTMLHttp Server Path	This field only displays when viewing connection profile information for SAP CRM. This value is generated by the application and is not configurable.
Base Help URL	This field is not available for ANCILE Help Launchpad, Guidewire,Infor, Web-Custom Integration or Web-General Web App (formerly In-Application). Enter the URL of an alternate help content location the user can choose to view if no help is returned for their current context. Typically this would be the default help location provided by the application for which the connection profile was created. Populating this field will result in a base help link in the header bar of the website. The user may click this link to navigate to the alternate help content. NOTE: Any context information contained in the URL that receives in the initial help call will be appended to the help link URL value when the end user clicks the base help link. You should test the base help link to ensure alternate help content can either process or ignore the context information. The name of the base help link that displays in the end user website is the name of the connection profile.
Search Method	This field is only available for Web-Custom Integration. Select Transaction Code to search by the transaction code property only, Full Text (All Words) to allow an AND search based on properties, or Full Text (Any Words) to allow an OR search based on properties.
Authentication Type	Select the type of authentication to assign to the connection profile. Refer to Specifying Authentication Types for more information on the available authentication types. NOTE: You must edit existing connection profiles to add this field.
Application URLs	This field is only available for Guidewire,Infor (not Smart Help) and Web-General Web App (formerly In-Application). Enter the URL of the business application where you want in-application help enabled. Click the Add button. Repeat this process to add additional URLs. NOTE: Separate multiple addresses with commas. The in-application help control will display in the browser when the current URL contains the value defined in this field. You can make this as broad or granular as you wish. mydomain.com – Enables in-app help for all web applications running in the “mydomain” domain. hostname.mydomain.com – Enables in-app help for all web applications running on a server with this hostname hostname.mydomain.com/AppX – Enables in-app help only for pages containing AppX in the path part of the URL. This setting only controls whether the in-application help control displays within a given web application and whether a user can request help from within that application. The relevance of the help request results depend on how well a given web application’s characteristics match the context data the in-application help collects.
Assigned URLs	This field is only available when creating or editing connection profile information for Guidewire,Infor (not Smart Help) and Web-General Web App (formerly In-Application). URLs of the business applications where context-sensitive help is enabled display.
Snippet	This field only displays when viewing connection profile information for Guidewire,Infor (not Smart Help) and Web-General Web App (formerly In-Application). The Snippet information allows an administrator to embed the in-application context-sensitive help icon into a web application. This value is generated by the application and is not configurable. NOTE: If the snippet is embedded into a web application, the browser extension is not needed for that web application. If you want to deliver in-application context-sensitive help for multiple web applications without using the browser extension, you must embed snippet(s) in all web applications that you want in-application context-sensitive help.
Integration	This field only displays when viewing connection profile information for Infor-Smart Help. The information allows an administrator to connect Infor Ming.le to the Server to enable Ming.le users to view context-sensitive help. This value is generated by the application and is not configurable.

Complete/review the following as available in the Browser Settings area:

Field	Description
Width	This field is not available for Guidewire,Infor and Web-General Web App (formerly In-Application). Set the width of the browser window in which the help will display.
Height	This field is not available for Guidewire,Infor and Web-General Web App (formerly In-Application). Set the height of the browser window in which the help will display.
Color	This field is only available for Guidewire,Infor (not Smart Help) and Web-General Web App (formerly In-Application). Select the color of the in-application context-sensitive help "question mark," which is what users click to access in-app CSH. This also controls the color of any status messages displayed by the in-application context-sensitive help solution.
Location	For all options except Guidewire, Infor and Web-General Web App (formerly In-Application), sSpecify the location of the browser window in which the help will display. For Guidewire,Infor (not Smart Help) and Web-General Web App (formerly In-Application), select the location where the in-application context-sensitive help control will appear in the web browser. The Top and Bottom options are offset by 100 pixels from the browser content top and bottom boundaries.
Stay on Top (IE Only)	This option is not available for Guidewire,Infor and Web-General Web App (formerly In-Application). Select this option to allow the browser window containing help to display on top of all open applications. NOTE: This option is available for use only with Internet Explorer.
Omit Tertiary Context	This option is only available for Guidewire,Infor (not Smart Help) and Web-General Web App (formerly In-Application). If you are using In-Application Help and not getting the search results you expect, try selecting this option.

Complete/review the following as available in the Context String Substitution area:

NOTE:

This option is only available for SAP Fiori, Guidewire, Infor (not Smart Help), Web-Custom Integration and Web-General Web App (formerly In-Application).

NOTE:

Use this option if there is a variance between the context data captured when creating documents and the context data that is accessed when calling context sensitive help. For example, documents are created in a non-production environment but context sensitive help is accessed within a different production environment.

Field

Description

Find

Enter the context string to find within the following values:

Primary (host name)
Secondary (screen title personalization)
Tertiary (different set of frames)

Replace

Enter the context string replacement for the following values:

Primary (host name)
Secondary (screen title personalization)
Tertiary (different set of frames)

NOTE:

Find and Replace is a simple string substitution. All found instances of the specified string will be replaced. The Find and Replace can be as specific or as general as needed to fit your scenario.

For example:

The recorded context is:

Primary: https://test.myapp.com/archprodsuio
Secondary: Customer Record

An end user requests help from a business application https://prod.myapp.com/archprodsuio. You would need to do the following:

Find Primary: prod.myapp.com
Replace Primary: test.myapp.com

Click Save if creating or editing a connection profile.

Continue to the next article based on the application you are using for context-sensitive help:

Application	Refer To
Oracle	Configuring Oracle E-Business For Use With Context-Sensitive Help.
SAP CRM	Refer to Configuring SAP CRM Web Client For Use With Context-Sensitive Help.
SAP Portal	Refer to Configuring SAP Portal For Use With Context-Sensitive Help.
Siebel	Refer to Configuring Siebel 8 For Use With Context-Sensitive Help.
ANCILE Help Launchpad	Refer to Configuring Help Launchpad To Deliver Context-Sensitive Help.
PeopleSoft	Refer to Configuring PeopleSoft For Use With Context-Sensitive Help.
General Web App (formerly In-Application), Guidewire, Infor, Salesforce Lightning	Refer to Configuring In-Application Context-Sensitive Help.
SAP Fiori	Refer to Configuring SAP Fiori And UI5 For Use With Context Sensitive Help.
SAP Portal - Salesforce Classic	Refer to Configuring Salesforce Classic For Use With Context-Sensitive Help.
Smart Help, Custom Integration	No Configuration is required for use with Context Sensitive Help. Go to Creating A Template.