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Intergrated ABAP help is not working in Eclipse

Sigurdur — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:03:18 GMT

Just Got the new ADT in Eclipse working, but when ever I press F1 for help the sidepanael for the help displays error "Unable to access online help!"

I find this strange since I can easily connect to the system and browse code !

Any idea on what could be wrong here

Best Regards

Re: Intergrated ABAP help is not working in Eclipse

Former Member — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:36:45 GMT

Hi,

please check two things:

1. If you are using the AS ABAP trial backend please check if the HTTP service already has been configured correctly in the instance profile parameters.

2. Use transaction SICF to check whether the following service has been activated: /default_host/sap/bc/abap/docu. If not, please activate it.

Hope this helps to solve your issue,

Christopher

Re: Intergrated ABAP help is not working in Eclipse

Sigurdur — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:49:08 GMT

I'm not running on a Trial system

and after checking is T-code SICF, I believe both services are enabled

Testing docu service gives a web page to search

ABAP Keyword Documentation

Testing toolsdocu gives a page with the following text

Invalid request - no documentation requested

I did notice that my system does not have SNC, could that be a factor ?

Re: Intergrated ABAP help is not working in Eclipse

Former Member — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:03:44 GMT

Ok, if the docu service works nicely in your browser it's strange that it doesn't within ADT because it's exactly the same access pattern. SNC isn't required so this can't be the reason. If I can think of anything else I'll get back to you.

Christopher

Re: Intergrated ABAP help is not working in Eclipse

Sigurdur — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:37:00 GMT

Is there any way of tracing / debugging what is causing this problem !

Regards.

Re: Intergrated ABAP help is not working in Eclipse

Former Member — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:22:20 GMT

Hi,

it seems, the boths HTTP services (docu and ToolsDocu) are actvated at the backend side.

Your results from testing via SICF are also fine.

So try again to access ABAP Language help from within the source editor in ADT via F1.

Best regards, Alfred

Re: Intergrated ABAP help is not working in Eclipse

Sigurdur — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:40:13 GMT

I have retried to virew the online help from with in ADT, but same results as before.

I did however find the following error message in eclipse error log.

com.sap.adt.communication.exceptions.SystemFailureException: System failure: "A character set conversion is not possible."

T-code ST22 reveals further info

Category	ABAP Programming Error
Runtime Errors	CONVT_CODEPAGE
Except.	CX_SY_CONVERSION_CODEPAGE
ABAP Program	CL_ABAP_CONV_IN_CE============CP

Application Component BC-ABA-LA

At the conversion of a text from codepage '4102' to codepage '1100':

Re: Intergrated ABAP help is not working in Eclipse

Sigurdur — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:31:04 GMT

Some More Info on this issue

By Activating tracing with in the Eclipse Gui I have now also been able to capture the following warning

Re: Intergrated ABAP help is not working in Eclipse

Former Member — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 07:04:22 GMT

Hi again,

well, we need to reproduce that issue anyway.

Would you to create a support OSS message for the component BC-DWB-AIE and add the ST22 dump file as attachment, please.

Regards - Alfred

Re: Intergrated ABAP help is not working in Eclipse

Sigurdur — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:14:13 GMT

I just submitted an OSS message id 850940

Re: Intergrated ABAP help is not working in Eclipse

Sigurdur — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:49:35 GMT

Just got a fix via SAP Note 1767013

good job...