Integrating Rational DOORS and Rational Publishing Engine

When you integrate Rational® Publishing Engine with Rational DOORS®, you can generate documents directly from within Rational DOORS.
Note: You must configure Rational Publishing Engine to work with Rational DOORS when the trusted DXL setting is defined in Rational DOORS. See Extracting Rational DOORS data with DXL security settings.

Before you begin

Examine the Rational DOORS module that you intend to use and its contents. To locate the information center for your version of Rational DOORS, see About the Rational DOORS information center.
Tip: You can use the combination of module properties, object attributes, and views that are stored in the modules. Review the available views in a module for computed columns including traceability views, or perhaps Layout DXL columns. These views do not correspond to Rational DOORS attributes, but might be something that you would like to include in the report.

Installation

Install Rational DOORS before installing Rational Publishing Engine. Rational Publishing Engine must modify the registry key created by Rational DOORS.
Note: The Rational Publishing Engine installation on Windows updates several registry entries for Rational DOORS. If Rational DOORS is installed after Rational Publishing Engine, open IBM® Installation Manager and click Modify and complete the wizard for Rational Publishing Engine to reset the configuration for Rational DOORS. This updates the latest registry changes made by the Rational Publishing Engine installer. To update the registries manually, see Manually updating the Rational DOORS registries.

During the Rational Publishing Engine installation, you have the option of installs the Rational DOORS add-in. When the add-in is installed, you can publish Rational Publishing Engine templates directly from Rational DOORS.

If Rational Publishing Engine is installed before Rational DOORS, the registry key is not updated and the Publish plug-in contained in the Rational DOORS add-in cannot be found by Rational DOORS.

Building your template

Publishing the document

Important: For local document generation, Rational Publishing Engine can connect to a running Rational DOORS client, however, for remote document generation, that option is not available. If you are publishing using the remote generation engine from either the Database or the Module view, you must enter authentication credentials in the document specification before generating your document so that the remote Rational Publishing Engine service can instantiate a new Rational DOORS headless client to pull the report data.

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