How to customize Help for the Web Mapping Application

This page explains how to customize the Help for the Web Mapping Application. This page is not intended for viewing by the end users of your application. You may wish to move this file to a location not accessible to users, or delete it.

The Help uses standard client-side Web tools: HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and a small amount of JavaScript. You should be familiar with basic HTML and CSS to customize this Help. No server-side technology is used within this Help. The Help is simple uncompiled Help, with a set of web pages, images and related files.

Tips for customizing Help

Image issues when deploying Help separately from the Web Mapping Application

Some images are used from the images folder in the Web Mapping Application, in the parent folder of Help. These images may not display correctly if the Help is moved to a folder outside the Web Mapping Application.

If you must locate the Help separately from the Web Mapping Application, you will need to add these images to your customized Help website.

  1. Copy images referenced from the images folder of the parent Web Mapping Application into your Help website. You can find these images by searching for "../images/" in the files of the Help website. They include zoom-in_off.gif, fullextent.gif, and measure-line.png, and total about 24 references in various page of the Help. Copy each image from the parent images directory into the images subdirectory inside Help.
  2. Then update the URLs for each image to point to your local copy of the image. Find each reference to "../images/", and change them to "images/".
  3. After copying the images and updating the URLs, test each Help page to ensure images appear.