About the Document Studio

Document Studio is a stand-alone application used for designing document templates. Document Studio provides various views and wizards to help you design templates. You can choose elements to create a template that can populate the latest data from your data source.
You can do the following in Document Studio:
Note: If you are prompted to choose a licensing option, see Connecting to a license server to learn how to specify the license server path.
When you launch Document Studio, you start working in an empty template.

Document Studio user interface

Because Rational Publishing Engine is based on Eclipse, these views can be hidden, expanded, contracted undocked, or moved. If you unintentionally removed a view from your perspective, you can click Window > Show view > view to open it or you can restore the default settings by clicking Window > Restore Default Perspective.

 1 . Palette view

The Palette view displays all of the elements that you can use to create and design your document template. See Template elements for more details.

The Palette view has the following object selection tools:
  • Select: Select an element in the template content editor area.
    • You can click an element in the Palette view and then click the location in the template content editor to place the element in the template.
    • Select an element in the template content editor and then press Ctrl + Click to add the clicked element to the selection.
  • Marquee: Select multiple elements in the template content editor.
Tip: By default, a palette element remains selected until you select a new tool. Click the Select element to return to your cursor.

 2 . Data Source Schema view

The Data Source Schema view displays the data schemas available to use in the template. Each schema is displayed in its own tab in this view.

 3 . Editor area

The editor area is where you design the template structure in Document Studio. The visual content of the document template and the master pages are created in this area. The editor includes multiple tabs:
  • Template content editor: Design the template for the report.
  • Zoom editor: Work in a smaller area of your template.
  • Master page: Each master page resides in a tab.

 4 . Outline view

The Outline view displays the content of the templates in a tree structure.

 5 . Properties view

Displays the properties of the selected element and enables you to edit it. However, some properties such as the query path are read-only. It also displays the accepted values in a tooltip for some formatting properties.

 6 . Problems view

The Problems view displays a list of errors and warnings in the template.

 7 . Zoom editor

The Zoom editor allows you to focus on a on a particular element or set of elements. This is useful when you are designing complex templates with many nested elements.


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