Help

The Help options let you customize options for the technical user assistance.

User Assistance

Online User Assistance
Accesses the 3ds.com Online User Assistance. You do not have to specify the installation path of the user assistance. You access the user assistance available on http://help.3ds.com.

By default, This option is selected.

Server URLs
Lets you enter the URL of the server on which the user assistance is installed.

If you are using several servers, you can concatenate them using a semicolon (";") as separator. If you indicate a wrong URL, the previous URL is kept.

The URL in the browser includes the chosen language (for example, http://mydocserver/English), do not include the language in the URL of the server (for example, http://mydocserver).

Important: When you enter the path through CATOptionsMgt, DSYOptionsAdmin, or any other similar utility, the entered information is not validated right away. The validation is done later on when invoking the user assistance.

Language
Lets you select the language for your user assistance: Environment language (default), or any language you selected when installing the software. For detailed information on installing the software, see DS Installer User's Guide: Uninstalling the Software.

The default environment language corresponds to the language you define in the Regional Settings tab (on Windows) or in the LANG variable.

To use a user assistance in the same language as the software, you need to install the online user assistance in the appropriate language. See Native Apps Installation Guide: Installing Native Apps: Installing the Online Documentation.

However, the language you choose for the user assistance is independent from the language of your session, or of your operating system. For example, you can run a session in Japanese and use an English user assistance, provided that you installed it on your computer.

Access English current user assistance level if the chosen language is not available
If the language you are looking for is not available for the current release, you use the English user assistance. This is the case for the General Availability level because no translated user assistance is available straight away on 3ds.com.

Otherwise, you use the most recent user assistance available in the chosen language.

By default, This option is selected.