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Lesson 3: Generating the document

Switch to the Launcher perspective. If the perspective icon is not visible, click the Open perspective icon and Other. Select RPE Launcher and OK.
Note: When the Keep Document Specification synchronized with the current Template preference is selected, the document specification is synchronized with the template at every load, close, and save operation. If the preference is not selected, you must manually synchronize the document specification.

To configure the data source:

  1. In the Document Specification window, expand Templates > Data Sources.

    Launcher perspective

  2. Right-click the data source and select Configure Data Source. In the Rational® DOORS® Data Source Selection wizard, click Next.
  3. Specify the connection details:
    1. To use a running instance of Rational DOORS, select Use running DOORS instance and click Next.
    2. To run Rational DOORS in the background, select Run a new background DOORS process and specify the user name, password, database, and path to doors.exe. Then click Next.
  4. In the Select a view from the Rational DOORS database window, navigate to the structure and select the appropriate module, version, and view. After you select a view, Finish enables.
  5. Click Finish.
  6. After you configure the data source, generate the document by clicking Document Specification > Generate > Generate Document or by clicking the Generate Document icon Generate Document icon.
    Note: You can also enter these details manually in the Properties view.

Lesson checkpoint

You have generated a document from your template.
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