SoDA migration tool reference notes

Refer to these notes on using the current implementation of the SoDA® migration tool in IBM® Rational® Publishing Engine.

SoDA commands

Table 1. Considerations for using SoDA commands in Rational Publishing Engine
Name Description
OPEN OPEN commands that have multiple arguments are not supported in this version.
REPEAT The following sections of a REPEAT command are not supported:
  • Predicate
  • Ordering
  • Recursive replicator
LIMIT The following sections of a LIMIT command are not supported:
  • Transform
  • Predicate
For the LIMIT command, Rational Publishing Engine creates a container and adds a condition to this element. The condition body is SoDA LIMIT Predicate. After generating the template, edit this condition in accordance with the LIMIT predicate.

LIMIT OMIT and LIMIT OTHERWISE are treated identical with the simple LIMIT command.

DISPLAY The filter feature is not supported.

Microsoft Word elements

Only the following properties are read from the SoDA template and set in the resulting Rational Publishing Engine template for the generated elements.

Paragraph
Inherited style name (only if the style is a heading type one), paragraph alignment, top border style, top border width, top border color, right border style, right border width, right border color, bottom border style, bottom border width, bottom border color, left border style, left border width, left border color, before spacing, after spacing, multiple line spacing, first line indent, hanging indent, left indent, right indent, level number, numbering style
Text
Font color, font size, font family, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, character spacing, subscript, superscript, all borders style, all borders color, all borders width, text background color
Field
Font color, font size, font family, bold, italic, underline
Table
Cell spacing, table alignment, top border style, top border width, top border color, right border style, right border width, right border color, bottom border style, bottom border width, bottom border color, left border style, left border width, left border color
Cell
Top border style, top border width, top border color, right border style, right border width, right border color, bottom border style, bottom border width, bottom border color, left border style, left border width, left border color, cell text top padding, cell text right padding, cell text bottom padding, cell text left padding, cell background color
Image
Image width, image height, image alignment
Hyperlink
Font color, font size, font family, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, underline color, character spacing, subscript, superscript, text background color
Footnote
Font color, font size, font family, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, character spacing, subscript, superscript, text background color, footnote type
Table caption, Figure caption, and Comment
Font color, font size, font family, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, character spacing, subscript, superscript, text background color
Row
Row height, row repeat at page beginning
List
Numbering style
Page number and Total page number
Font color, font size, font family, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, character spacing, subscript, superscript, all borders style, all borders color, all borders width, text background color
Field
Field code
Master Page
Page orientation, paper size, paper height, paper width
Header
Header from top
Footer
Footer from bottom

Customizing Rational Publishing Engine

Mapping SoDA data sources

Certain SoDA data sources can map to multiple Rational Publishing Engine schemas. You cannot perform operations such as Join in these scenarios. The data sources is added to the Rational Publishing Engine resulting template. You must manually add a condition to the template elements to perform the Join operation.


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