WikiHelp Browser Configuration

[SBix26]

Provide a means in Inventor for users to configure browser access to the on-line Inventor WikiHelp.  Currently, if firewalls do not allow anonymous access to the hosting service (currently Amazon  Web Services) for the Inventor WikiHelp, there is no recourse.  If the application would allow configuring a proxy server for this purpose, users could access the most current help instead of waiting for the browser request to time out before reverting to the local static help file, if installed.

Sam B
Inventor 2012 Certified Professional

Inventor Professional 2013 SP2
Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit, SP1 & IE 9

[mrattray]

As a work around, see this link for configuring Inventor to use offline help by default: http://beinginventive.typepad.com/being-inventive/2011/05/using-the-inventor-2012-full-help-even-if-...

[SBix26]

That helps a little, but better yet would be the ability to add proxy information in that XML file so that we could use the on-line help.

Sam B

[mrattray]

You're right, but I think if you could access the online help you wouldn't want to anymore.

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