Report designers can use Document Studio
to import data source schemas and build report templates.
Before you begin
Tip: The
Rational® Publishing Engine installation
includes a set of sample reports. Before you begin to publish documents,
you can explore this example document generation scenario. See
Creating the REST sample template.
Get
familiar with the
Rational Focal Point™ REST
service and the various URLs needed to extract data from
Rational Focal Point when
you are using
Rational Publishing Engine.
To locate the information center for your version of
Rational Focal Point,
see
About the Rational Focal Point information
centers.
About this task
Data is extracted by using the REST API.
This interface is installed and implemented with the data source application
and works independently of
Rational Publishing Engine.
For more information about the REST API for a data source, see the
documentation for that data source.