2013

The Preferences window appears.
7 Under Categories, click Help.
8 In the Help Location section, select Installed Local Help.
9 Click Save and exit the Preferences window.
The Maya 2013 Help is now available from the Help, F1, and context
sensitive help menus.
Install Maya Help on a shared location
On Windows and Linux platforms, you can install the Maya Help to a shared
location, such as internal network or web server, so that it can be accessed by
multiple users. You can then set the Maya Help preferences on individual
systems to access Help from this location.
NOTE On the Mac OS X systems, you can only install the Maya Help to the default
directory. To use the Maya Help from a shared location, you must copy the docs
directory to a shared location. Individual systems can then set their Help preferences
so they access Help from this location.
When choosing a shared location, ensure that the directory path to the Maya
Help does the following:
Points directly to the Help location. For example,
\\CompanyServer\SharedLocation\MayaHelp\docs\Maya2013\en_US.
Do not use an alias path.
Points to the directory containing the index.html file. For example, the
path pointing to the English Maya Help ends at the \en_US directory.
Uses either http or https protocol for a web server location.
To install Maya Help to a shared location
1 Extract the Maya Help files for your platform and start the installation
wizard as described in steps 1 and 2 of the Maya Help installation
instructions.
See
Install the Maya Help on Windows (page 30) and Install the Maya
Help on Linux
(page 31).
2 During the installation when asked to confirm the destination folder for
the Help install, depending on your platform, click Change (Windows)
or Browse (Linux), then specify a shared location for the Help.
Individual systems can then set their Help preferences so they access
Help from this location.
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