Getting started with generating reports
The following topics provide important information to review
before you publish documents with Rational® Publishing Engine.
Authoring templates with Document Studio
You can design templates using Document Studio. The help
topics in this section provide conceptual information and instructional
assistance to support report authors and report developers as they
design document templates.
Defining document specifications without the document generation wizard
Use the Launcher to generate documents from saved document
specifications. The Launcher generates Microsoft Word, HTML, and two types of
PDF outputs simultaneously. Each of these target formats can be configured
to use style sheets, Microsoft Word
templates (.dot files), or cascading style sheets.
Creating archives
Create an archive file of all related artifacts in your
template so that a complete set of files can be emailed to another
user or stored in other locations. By creating an archive, you do
not have to manage or send multiple files for someone else to view
the files or generate documents.
Scheduling a document generation
For remote document generation, you can configure a schedule
to generate documents at daily, weekly, monthly, or custom intervals.
Previewing a document with the document generation wizard
For documents with large amounts of data, you can generate
a document from the Launcher and Document Studio applications with
only a subset of the data to decrease generation time.