NX What's New -> View a topic: Sorry, we couldn't find what you're looking for!

2021-10-06T23:26:31Z
NX System Administration

Summary


Details

NX 12.0.2. Help / Documentation on LINUX


1. PROBLEM SUMMARY:
    
     What's New ->


     a. Browse categories (any picks in the upper half) - WORK


     b. View a topic (ALL picks in the lower half) - FAIL


     Error message:
     Sorry, we couldn't find what you're looking for!




2. TOPIC SPECIFIC and "View a topic"
     For example "View a topic" works elsewhere in the NX 12.0.2 Help / Documentation on Linux:

      Teamcenter Integration for NX -> Specific Application Interface -> 
            Operation descriptors (under View a topic) - WORKS


3. PLATFORM SPECIFIC (LINUX only)
    a. What's New -> View a topic picks WORK with ONLINE Siemens PLM Help / Documentation
    b. What's New -> View a topic picks WORK with local install of 
             NX 12.0.2 Help / Documentation ON WINDOWS


    c. Therefore this failure occurs with the NX 12.0.2 Help / Documentation on the Linux platform.


4. VERSION SPECIFIC - NX Help / Documentation 12.0.2
    Granted, NX Help / Documentation for 12.0.0 in What's New just has Browse Categories ONLY 
        (and not a lower "View a topic" section that the NX Help / Documentation 12.0.2 seems to introduce)



Solution

(1) The NX 12.0.2 Help / Documentation software source for the Linux platform:


      If the software source is uncompressed (tar) further down the Linux operating system
      directory structure, files get truncated.
      
      Perhaps other files of the NX 12.0.2 Help / Documentation software source get truncated as well.
      This therefore results in a corrupt software source.


.../splmdocserver/docs_help-12.0.2/dvdrom1202_docs/nxhelp_update1202/NXDOCS/collections/nx/12/nx_help/tdoc/en_US/content/2/



Under this directory are many .xml files.
It appears many of the files are being truncated when the path length reaches 150 characters.


Therefore:
Place the install source to a shorter path on the machine. 

For example, extract nxhelp_update1202 into the /tmp directory.
This should leave enough room (directory depth) to see those .xml files under the "2/" sub-directory unpack without being truncated.



Hardware/Software Configuration

Platform: INTL64
OS: redhat
OS Version: EL7.0
Product: NX
Application: UGDOC
Version: V12.0.2
Function: GENERAL

Ref: 002-8007022

KB Article ID# PL8007022

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