The IBM® Rational® Publishing Engine 2.0
web app provides a web interface for building reports from templates,
generating and viewing documents. It contains a document generation
service.
Two roles are usually involved in creating a document: the report
designer and the everyday user.
- Report designers can upload templates that they created in Document
Studio along with stylesheets into the web app. They can assemble
the templates into reports and create data source connections.
- Everyday users can then generate documents from the reports with
no template coding knowledge or configuration required.
2.0 web app capabilities
The
2.0 web app provides the following capabilities:
- Everyday users do not need to install the Rational Publishing Engine desktop
application to generate documents.
- Alerts notify you when document generation is completed, with
links to the documents.
- Download all document generation results or individual file types.
- Share documents through unique URLs.
- Schedule document generation jobs to run at a specific time or
interval.
- Report on projects that have configuration management enabled.
- Report designers can hide complexity from document generators.
- Report designers can combine one or more templates to create reports.
- Report designers can create draft reports.
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.