Creating report templates by using Rational Publishing Engine Document Studio

Before you generate IBM® Rational® Publishing Engine reports in IBM Rational Focal Point™, you must download the report XSD from Rational Focal Point and author a report template in Rational Publishing Engine.

Before you begin

Install Rational Publishing Engine Document Studio and author a report template. You must have a separate license for authoring templates in Rational Publishing Engine. You can install Rational Publishing Engine on the same server as Rational Focal Point.
Important: When you upload the Rational Publishing Engine template to Rational Focal Point, make sure that you use fonts that are in the Rational Focal Point server. Otherwise, the reports might not be displayed correctly.

Procedure

  1. Download the Rational Focal Point report XSD.
    • For the generic XML data source, go to http://hostname/ip:port/fp/report/fp-report.xsd.
    • For a Rational Focal Point REST data source, select the URL to the appropriate module. For example: http://hostname/ip:port/fp/resources/workspaces/workspace_id/modules/module_id/elements.xsd.
  2. In Rational Publishing Engine Document Studio, create a template file that is based on the Rational Focal Point XSD. For more information, see “Designing documents” in the Rational Publishing Engine information center at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/rpehelp/v1r1m1/topic/com.ibm.rational.pe.publishing.doc/topics/t_designingdocuments.html.

What to do next

Add the file as a report template in Rational Focal Point. For more information, see Adding a report template.

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