After you create a report template in Rational® Publishing Engine Document
Studio, and import the data source schemas to report on, you must
create associations between the controls in the report template and
the elements in the data source schema.
Before you begin
You must have a report template open that you created by using
Rational Publishing Engine Document
Studio version 1.1.2 or later, and you must be in the RPE Studio perspective.
The report template must have at least one data source schema imported,
and must contain controls such as Paragraph, Text, Container, and
so on.
Procedure
- In the Data Source Schemas perspective,
click the tab of an imported data-source schema.
- Navigate the schema hierarchy until all of the properties
of the schema are displayed.
- Drag a schema element to a control in the
report template. This action associates the schema property with the
layout control.
Tip: You can also complete
this action by right-clicking elements in the Outline view.
- Repeat step 3 until
the report template layout is complete.
- Click .
Example
For an example of how to associate data source schemas with
controls in a report template, see the related link to the Design
Management tutorial and in Lesson 1 of the tutorial, see the section
called "Associating the Package type and its properties".
What to do next
You can now connect the templates and data sources by creating
a document specification file, which stores this connection information.