You can call for one or multiple templates in a document
specification and generate a document from the document specification.
Before you begin
To create multi-template documents, create reusable document
templates for specific purposes and add multiple document templates
to a document specification.
Procedure
- In the RPE Launcher, click .
- Optional: Enter the metadata for the document
specification:
- Name: A name for the document specification.
This name is only in the metadata and not a name for the file to be
saved as.
- Description: An explanation of the
content in the document specification or context for other users to
work with the document specification.
- Click Finish.
- Right-click Templates.
- Click Add templates.
- Select a template in the Central
Management component,
from your local computer, or a remote server and click OK.
Tip: You can use relative paths, HTTP paths
, or HTTPS paths to related resources in document
specifications. When you use relative paths, you can change the directory
structure of your files or move them to the central asset management
system and still access the files necessary to generate documents. You are prompted to choose between using
relative paths or absolute paths when the document specification is
saved, when the template is in the same folder as the document specification,
when the template is in a child folder of the folder that contains
the document specification, or when the template is in a parent folder
of the folder that contains the document specification. You cannot
specify a relative path to a parent folder of a parent folder.
- Repeat to add additional templates to the document specification.
Note: You can use the same template multiple times with different
configurations for its data sources.
Results
When you publish the document, each template is executed in
the order it are specified in the document specification.
Example
Table 1. Rational Tau
multi-template document exampleTemplate file name |
Template contents |
Explanation of use |
titlePage.dta |
Title page, Table of contents |
Generates the title page from the Module properties |
Preamble.dta |
Preamble chapters |
Includes a Microsoft Word
file with preamble chapters |
Requirements.dta |
System requirements |
Generates the data from the data source listing
the system requirements |
userRequirements.dta |
User requirements |
Generates the data from the data source listing
the user requirements |
Design.dta |
Modeling information |
Generates the data from the data source listing
information from the UML model |