Many organizations must produce documentation
from their systems and software engineering data that meets complex
style and format requirements imposed by clients, business partners,
or government or industry regulatory bodies. With the Rational® Publishing Engine web
app, everyday users can easily produce these documents by using pre-configured
reports, with no coding knowledge or additional configuration required.
About this task
Two roles are usually involved in creating a
document: the report designer and the everyday user. In this tutorial,
Ryan the report designer creates reports from templates that he designed
in Document Studio. Susan the everyday user generates the documents
from the reports that Ryan developed.
Ryan and Susan's manager wants a daily digest of the top 25 headlines
from various news sites. Ryan will design the templates and reports,
and Susan will generate the documents.
Tip: What's the difference between templates, reports, and
documents?A template is a resource that
a report designer creates in Rational Publishing Engine Document
Studio using data source schemas, variables and styles. Templates
have the file extension .dta.
A report is
assembled from one or more templates or stylesheets. Templates correspond
to sections of a report. For example, you might have different templates
for table of contents, front cover, body, index, and back cover. These
templates can be reused in different documents.
A document is
generated from a report. Users can find reports that the report designer
created and then generate documents with a single click. Documents
can be in Microsoft Word,
HTML, PDF or XSL-FO formats.