Documents are considered large for Rational® Publishing Engine when
they consist of a thousand or more pages. To decrease the time it
takes Rational Publishing Engine to
generate large documents, consider using the multipart property
in your document specification or changing the contents of your template.
Procedure
- If you are generating Microsoft Word output, set the multipart property
in the document specification:
- In the Document Specification view, select the Microsoft Word output.
- In the Properties view, locate the multipart property.
- Enter one of the following values:
- STATIC: When set to STATIC, the
output is built when the entire report is serialized on the disk, which means that the output is
converted into a storable format across a network. Large documents can be generated if the heap size
is large enough to accommodate the memory usage. Use STATIC when you include
region elements in your templates.
- DYNAMIC: When set to DYNAMIC,
instead of waiting until the entire report is serialized on the disk, the output is built as
Rational Publishing Engine
processes the input for each section that is divided by a section break element. If you specify
DYNAMIC to generate a template that contains a region element, you might not
see improved generation performance. When a template contains a region element, the entire template
must still be serialized on the disk at the end of document generation. Use the
STATIC value for templates that contain region elements.
- Save the document specification and generate the output.
When you open the Microsoft Word
output document, the file does not appear to have data in it.
- Select all content by pressing Ctrl+A.
- Update the fields by pressing Shift+F9.
- Remove some of the images from your template. If there
are fewer images to process, Rational Publishing Engine might
be able to process the documents correctly without reducing the amount
of data contained in them.
- Remove some of the tables from your template.
For documents with more than 15,000 data results and a large number
of tables, Rational Publishing Engine might
display out of memory issues when generating the documents into Microsoft Word and PDF outputs.
If there are fewer tables in the template to process, Rational Publishing Engine might
be able to process the documents correctly without reducing the amount
of data contained in them.
- If the spacing properties for a paragraph are larger than
single line spacing, consider changing those properties to create
single line spacing. If there are fewer pages of text for Rational Publishing Engine to
process, Rational Publishing Engine might
be able to process the documents correctly without reducing the amount
of data contained in them.
- Remove any output formats that are not required
from the document specification.
- If you have tried all of these suggestions and still have
issues generating the document, break your document into chunks and
generate them separately.