In the All properties tab, these properties are located at the top-level, in the Metadata, and in the sections.
Type | Value | Description |
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Tag | String | Tag name for the element. This property cannot be edited. |
Name | String | The name of the element. |
Description | String | A summary or note about this element. |
Assignment | String | The variables that are assigned to the element. |
Condition | String | A script that can apply variables or attributes as conditions on the element. |
In the All properties tab, expand Formatting to set these properties.
Type | Value | Description |
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Target data source | String | Data source to be configured. |
Inherited data configuration | String | Name of the data source, which is used for configuring the Target data source property. |
Type | Value | Description |
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URI | File path | Required. The path to the data source resource. |
Username | String | Optional. User name to login into
the data source application. If there are authentication errors
and the Ignore data source configuration errors property
is set to true, the document generation continues.
If there are authentication errors and the Ignore data
source configuration errors property is set to false,
the document generation cancels. See Run time metadata properties reference for
more information about the Ignore data source configuration
errors property. For more information about how user names and passwords are stored, see Security considerations for IBM® Rational Publishing Engine. |
Password | String | Optional. Password to login into the
data source application. If there are authentication errors and
the Ignore data source configuration errors property
is set to true, the document generation continues.
If there are authentication errors and the Ignore data
source configuration errors property is set to false,
the document generation cancels. See Run time metadata properties reference for
more information about the Ignore data source configuration
errors property. For more information about how user names and passwords are stored, see Security considerations for IBM Rational Publishing Engine. |
Authentication | auto, basic, form, oauth, oauth-oslc | Optional. Default value: auto
The authentication type for connecting to the data source. If no authentication type is specified, each type is tested until the correct type is found and then cached as the authentication type setting for future connections within a current document generation. For subsequent document generation, even when running in the same Launcher or Document Studio instance, the initial auto connection repeats the process by once again testing each type to find and cache the correct type. If there are authentication errors and the Ignore data source configuration errors property is set to true, the document generation continues. If there are authentication errors and the Ignore data source configuration errors property is set to false, the document generation cancels. See Run time metadata properties reference for more information about the Ignore data source configuration errors property. |
Command | String | Optional. A script to execute when the output is generated. |
Ignored | true, false | Optional. Default value: false Set to true to exclude a template from generating when you are running multiple templates from one document specification. |
Accept header | image/jpeg, text/html, application/xml, */* | Optional. A specific type of resource that is retrieved from the data source. |