Creating reports by using Rational Publishing Engine

If you integrate Rational® Focal Point™ with IBM® Rational Publishing Engine, you can create more versatile reports. Rational Focal Point also supports creating reports in the Rational Publishing Engine TPE format.
To create TPE reports, you must generate the report content in Rational Focal Point and then complete the report in the Document Studio Launcher of Rational Publishing Engine.

You can generate Rational Publishing Engine reports without configuring a separate server. To generate a report, you must install Rational Publishing Engine Document Studio, create a template, add a report type, and select report formats. You can then generate a report and download a compressed file to view the report. To use Rational Publishing Engine with Rational Focal Point, you must have a separate license for Rational Publishing Engine.

Note: When you upload the IBM Rational Publishing Engine template to Rational Focal Point, make sure that you use fonts that are available in the Rational Focal Point server. Else the reports might not display correctly.

Before you begin

The Rational Publishing Engine license must be on the same server that hosts the Rational Focal Point license.

Procedure

  1. Download the Rational Focal Point Report XSD. For Generic XML data source go to, http://hostname/ip:port/fp/report/fp-report.xsd. For a Rational Focal Point REST data source, select the URL to the appropriate module. For example, http://hostname/ip:port/fp/resources/workspaces/workspace_id/modules/module_id/elements.xsd.
  2. In Rational Publishing Engine Document Studio, create a template file that is based on the Rational Focal Point XSD.
  3. Add a report template and upload the created template
  4. Add a new report type based on the new report template.
  5. Map the report template values to the Rational Focal Point content.
  6. Set the report access.
  7. In Rational Focal Point, generate a report that is based on the new report type.
  8. Download the compressed file. For Rational Publishing Engine reports, the compressed file contains .pdf, .doc, .html and .xsl-fo versions of the report. For TPE reports, you must complete the report in Rational Publishing Engine Document Studio Launcher.

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