Using the Rational Publishing Engine SoDA migration tool

Rational® Publishing Engine includes a SoDA® migration tool, which is a utility used to migrate a SoDA template to an Rational Publishing Engine template.

Before you begin

Installing the SoDA migration tool.

Procedure

  1. To start the migration tool, click Import > Rational SoDA > Import SoDA Template.
  2. In the Input SODA Template field, click Browse and locate the SoDA template to import.
  3. In the Output RPE Template field, click Browse to select a location and a name to save as the new imported Rational Publishing Engine template.
  4. Click Next.
  5. Select a Rational Publishing Engine schema to use in the Rational Publishing Engine template and click OK. You can use default schemas included in the Rational Publishing Engine installation: %RPE_HOME%\importer\soda\schema\default
    Select schema window
  6. Click Next.
  7. In the Select query window, configure Rational Publishing Engine queries to match SoDA queries. Then configure the Rational Publishing Engine attributes to match SoDA attributes in Attribute Mapping.
    Attribute mapping window
  8. Click Next.
  9. Select Overwrite the mappings file to update the mapping file to be used later.
  10. Click Finish to complete migration process. You can view the new Rational Publishing Engine template in the template content editor.

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