Associating report template controls with data elements

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

  1. In the Data Source Schemas perspective, click the tab of an imported data-source schema.
  2. Navigate the schema hierarchy until all of the properties of the schema are displayed.
  3. 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.
  4. Repeat step 3 until the report template layout is complete.
  5. Click File > Save.

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.

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