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:
- Create a template.
- Create master pages to define a header element, a footer element,
and the page properties such as page orientation and page border.
- Select and insert queries and attributes into the template.
- Define external variables that receive values at run time.
- Define internal variables used for calculations.
- Create styles for element types.
- Add data sources schemas to a template.
- Create new schemas and resources using the Schema Discovery wizard.
- Configure, preview, and generate documents.
When
you launch Document Studio, you start working in an empty template.
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 to open it or you can restore the default settings
by clicking .
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.