How to set the default documentation location to "Locally Installed" at the time of installation?

We install a good number of copies of Matlab in a classified air-gapped network without internet connection. Thus the help documentation will need to be installed locally. I don't know since when the default documentation location has been changed to "Web", which becomes a burden for our users and admins to sort out this small settings. I figured it will be super if we can set the default documentation location to "Locally Installed" up front at the time of installation, using the installer answer file or alike.

Can someone help us?

Thank you.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

1. Home tab
2. Preferences
3. Help
4. Click Installed locally radio button

[Phil]

Thank you for the info. But is there a way via using a script to accomplish this? or via a config file or installer file up front during the installation?

[Image Analyst]

After you install it, do what I said. Yes there is a command to do it but I don't recall what it is at the moment and it would require editing the startup.m file, which is more work than what I just told you.

Alternatively see this:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/install/ug/install-documentation-on-offline-machines.html

[Phil]

Thank you.

I ended up asking the tech support for the answer. They replied with the following and it tested working:

If you want to configure this Preferences setting automatically for all Windows users on this machine, you can append this command to the "matlabrc.m" file in MATLAB's \toolbox\local folder after installation:

s=settings; s.matlab.help.DocLocation.PersonalValue='INSTALLED'