The CDF Feed enables you to look at the ODMRDD Administrative Rules web pages without being connected to the Internet. It is also called offline browsing or working offline. When working offline, the system functions independently, regardless of any network connection, and rules content is read exclusively from your computer’s memory. However, some of the content may not be available to you offline. If the web page requested is not available from your computer’s memory, a window will pop-up and ask if you want to go online to view the content or continue working offline.

The CDF Feed allows you to take ODMRDD Administrative Rule content with you where ever you go with your computer. All necessary text, graphics, and files are placed on your hard drive for offline browsing. Offline browsing is an easy feature to use in Internet Explorer 4.0 and later.

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How do I receive a CDF Feed?

To take advantage of this new feature on the ODMRDD Website, follow these steps to load the Administrative Rules web pages to your computer’s memory:

Click on MRDD Final Rules Index or navigate to http://mrdd.ohio.gov/Rules/ on the Department’s web site.
Next, click the CDF Feed icon located near the upper right hand corner of the MRDD Final Rules Index web page.

The ‘Add Favorite’ pop-up window will appear.

3. Click the checkbox to ‘Make available offline’.

4. Click the ‘OK’ button to complete the download process.

The ‘Add Favorite’ dialog box will disappear and your favorites tool bar will open on the left side of your browser.

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How do I access offline web pages?

Follow these steps to access the downloaded Administrative Rules directly from your computer:

1. Open Internet Explorer. Note: If you are not connected to the Internet, Internet Explorer will attempt to open your designated homepage. Since you are not connected to the Internet, you will most likely get a white page with an error message, Page not found. Disregard the message and continue with step 2.

2. Select File from the Internet Explorer menu bar and then select Work Offline.

3. Click on the ‘Favorites’ button

located on your Internet Explorer tool bar.

Your Favorites tool bar will open on the left side of your browser.

4. Scroll until you come to MRDD Administrative Rules with a little satellite dish image in front of it. Please note: The web pages in your favorites list that are not available to you to view offline will have a light font (grayed out). The web pages that are available to you will be in dark font. (Tip - If there’s no image, you may need to run your mouse over the text. Then you’ll get the image.)

5. Click to expand the ‘channel’ and you will find rule outline and content entries that make up a complete set of the ODMRDD Administrative Rules.

Tip - Hover your mouse over a rule outline to view the chapter description for a rule.

Tip - Hover your mouse over the rule content to view the description of the individual rule.

6. From your browser, click on any of the rules in the ‘channel’, whether you are working online or offline, to launch the web page that has the content or outline of the rule you are interested in viewing.

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How do I get updates to my offline web pages?

Complete these steps before working offline to ensure you have the most up-to-date version of the Administrative Rules on your computer:

1)     Select Tools from the Internet Explorer menu bar.

2)     Select Synchronize…

The ‘Items to Synchronize’ pop-up window will appear.

3) Click the checkbox to select MRDD Administrative RULES option under Offline Web Pages.

4)     Click the ‘Synchronize’ button to start the process.

The ‘Synchronizing’ pop-up window will appear.

When the process has completed the ‘Synchronizing’ pop-up window will disappear and you will have an updated version of the ODMRDD Administrative Rules stored on your computer.

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