If you have the Rational DOORS add-in
installed, you can generate documents directly from the Rational DOORS user
interface.
About this task
- When a local document generation is started from
the Rational Publishing Engine add-in
through the user interface or the command line, a license is consumed
on your computer. The license is checked out when the remote document
generation begins. Then the license is checked in after the document
generation is complete.
- When a remote document generation is started from
the Rational Publishing Engine add-in
through the user interface or the command line, a license is consumed
on the server. The license is checked out when the remote document
generation begins. Then the license is checked in after the document
generation is complete.
Note: You cannot access the Document Studio or
Launcher user interfaces while you are using the Rational Publishing Engine add-in
to publish a document.
Procedure
From either the Database view or Module view, click Publish. - When you click Publish from the Database
view, you are prompted for template and document specification configurations
as you would by clicking in Rational Publishing Engine.
- When you click Publish from the Module
view, you can select a new document specification and add templates
to it, or you can select an existing document specification that already
has templates added to it. Then, if the template uses a Rational DOORS data
source, Rational Publishing Engine configures
the data source for you with the information from the open Module
to generate the document. If any of the existing configuration information
in the document specification does not match the information in the
open Module, the existing information is overwritten with the information
from the open Module. Finish is enabled when
at least one template and one output format is selected.
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.