Runtime metadata properties reference

The document specification contains non-editable data generated by Rational® Publishing Engine for informational purposes and editable data for configuring the document generation. The runtime metadata properties listed below can be set in the Document Specification view under Runtime by selecting Metadata.
Table 1. Runtime properties
Property Value Description
Date Month Day, Year The date when the document specification was created. This field cannot be edited.
Time Hour:Minute:Second am or pm The time when the document specification was created. This field cannot be edited.
Client Application_name The application used to create the document specification. This field cannot be edited.

Example: Rational Publishing Engine

Machine Machine_name The name of the computer on which the document specification was created. This field cannot be edited.
Build YYYYMMDD_#### The build number of the application used to create the document specification. This field cannot be edited.
Version 1, 2 The template version used to design the template. This field cannot be edited.
Description String Description of the document specification.
Data formatting mixed, source, or template Controls how Rational Publishing Engine formats rich data from the data source:
  • Mixed: Mixes source and template formatting.
  • Source: Discards template formatting and preserves data source formatting only.
  • Template: Discards source formatting and preserves template formatting only.
Missing data text <data attribute not found> or a String Placeholder text used by Rational Publishing Engine when a data attribute is not found in the data source. You can use the default or customize your own text.
Date pattern YYYY-MM-DD, YYYY-DD-MM The format in which dates are to be rendered in the output.
Time pattern HH:MM:SS, HH:MM The format in which times are to be rendered in the output.
dateTime pattern YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS, YYYY-DD-MM HH:MM:SS, YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM, YYYY-DD-MM HH:MM The format in which combination dates and times are to be rendered in the output.
Output locale cs, en, fr, de, hu, it, ja, ko, pl, pt_BR, ru, zh_CN, es, zh_TW The output locale to be used for default date formats if the locale must be different from the system locale.
  • Czech (cs)
  • English (en)
  • French (fr)
  • German (de)
  • Hungarian (hu)
  • Italian (it)
  • Japanese (ja)
  • Korean (ko)
  • Polish (pl)
  • Portuguese (pt_BR)
  • Russian (ru)
  • Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
  • Spanish (es)
  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) (zh_TW)
Image max width Number The maximum width in pixels of each image in the output documents.
Image max height Number The maximum height in pixels of each image in the output documents.
OLEs as static images true, false Controls how Rational Publishing Engine handles Rational DOORS® OLEs:
  • True: OLEs reach the output as static images
  • False: OLEs are preserved in the output. You can use this option for Microsoft Word output only.
Clean referenced files true, false When set to true, the reference files stored in the ref folder, which contain Rational DOORS OLEs, are deleted at the end of the document generation and are not included in the Microsoft Word documents. The size of the Microsoft Word document is smaller when this property is set to true.
Ignore data source configuration errors true, false When set to true, all errors generated from issues with the data source configuration element are ignored. When set to false, you are prompted to correct the errors.
Non Unicode fonts font_name For Rational DOORS data sources, you can specify fonts that are sent to Rational DOORS when data is being extracted. You can list more than one font name by separating them with commas.
Pre-command String The pre-command prepares the data before the publishing the document specification.
Stop on pre-command failure true, false Specifies whether the document generation process is to be ended if the pre-command fails.
Post command String The post-command allows you to execute commands after publishing the document specification.

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