Setting preferences

Use the Preference page to specify a local or remote installation, the location of the template library, the preview preferences, and the Document Studio preferences.

About this task

You can configure the following properties from the preference window:

Procedure

  1. To specify a remote installation:
    1. In the Preferences window, in the left pane, expand the RPE tree, and then select Engine preference. By default, the local RPE engine is selected. To specify a remote engine, select Remote Engine.
    2. In the Web service address field, type the URL to the web service. For example, http://machine:8080/rpe/services/RPEService?wsdl.
    Contact your system administrator to get the URL for the web service. Try the URL in a browser first. If the WSDL (XML format) is loaded, use that value.
  2. To set the library locations:
    1. In the Preferences window, in the left pane, expand the RPE tree, and then select Library Locations.
    2. In the right pane, click New to specify the new library location.
    3. In the Select Library Locations window, type the path. If you do not know the path, click Browse to folder or Browse to file to select the library path. You can also specify the URL to an XML file.
    4. Click OK to return to the Preferences window.
    To edit the library locations, click Remove, Up, Down.
  3. To set the preview preferences:
    1. In the Preferences window, in the left pane, expand the RPE tree, and then select Preview Preferences.
    2. In the right pane, specify the number of elements you want to see in the Query results limit field.
    3. Click OK to return to the Preferences window.
      Note: Preview Current Document using remote document generation ignores the Query results limit set in Preview Preferences. The result is the same as running a normal document generation (all data is included).
  4. To set Document Studio preferences:
    1. In the Preferences window, click RPE Document Studio.
    2. In the right pane, set the following preferences:
      • Select Yes or No to Keep the document synchronized with the current template?
      • Select Yes or No to Keep the palette tool selected after insertion in template?
      • Select Yes or No to Use schema annotations for display.
      • Select System default, Left to right or Right to left for Default text direction.
      • Select Yes or No to Show template element content in Outline window.
      • Select Default (3 pixels) or Custom (in pixels) to define Studio template element padding (suggested size 2-10).
  5. To set the color theme:
    1. In the Preferences window, in the left pane, expand the RPE tree, and then select Color Preferences.
    2. In the right pane, expand Simple (active) and Gray. Select the elements with the associated color and click OK.
  6. To set page width preferences for the Rational Publishing Engine editor:
    1. In the Preferences window, in the left pane, expand the RPE tree, and then select Page Width Preferences.
    2. Select default (automatic) to retain the default page width settings or select Custom (in pixels) and add the required Page width size.
  7. To define the text direction and the preferred location of the output file dialog:
    1. In the Preferences window, in the left pane, expand the RPE tree, and then select RPE Launcher.
    2. Select the required option under Default text direction to determine the direction of the text. Select Last location or Specific location and locate the preferred location path. Click OK.
  8. To specify the client set up for the Monitor and Control servlet:
    1. In the Preferences window, in the left pane, expand the RPE tree, and then select Monitor Preferences. Enter the URL in the Monitor URL field to access the Monitor and Control servlet in the client. The URL is <base>/rpemc/service, where <base> is the URL to the server running RPE MC, such as http://localhost:8080.
    2. Add the RPEMC client User name and Password.
      Note: The URL for the Monitor and Control servlet must be set for both the Rational Publishing Engine Launcher and Rational Publishing Engine Document Studio. Also to complete the server side set up, make sure the web service address is specified. See Step 1.
  9. To set Load Balancing: In the Web service address field, type the following URL http://localhost/rpe/wsgate. This URL is the entry point for the load balancer. The server which provides the load balancing will return a URL that has the address of the web service either in the first or second instance of the Rational Publishing Engine web service.

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