Rational Focal Point and reporting tools

You can generate reports based on templates that are authored in IBM® Rational® Publishing Engine. You can also generate reports in external report tools by using an authenticated XML export.

To author a report template in Rational Publishing Engine, you need a separate Rational Publishing Engine license and installation. The following interactive diagram shows the process to generate reports that are based on report templates in Rational Publishing Engine.

Figure 1. Generating reports that are based on Rational Publishing Engine report templates
The diagram
begins with authoring a report template in Rational Publishing Engine.
Then, the template is added to the global Rational Focal Point configuration
and a report type is created in a workspace. Finally, the report is
generated. Rational Publishing Engine role: Click this area to get information about authoring report templates in Rational Publishing Engine. 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. Global administrator role: Click this area to get information about adding report templates authored in Rational Publishing Engine. You can generate reports that are in the style of IBM Rational Publishing Engine or IBM Rational Focal Point by using different report templates. To generate reports, you must have report templates. Workspace administrator role: Click this area to get information about creating report types. Before you generate a report, you must create a report type. A report type connects a report template and the data in a workspace by specifying the workspace components to use in the template. Regular user role: Click this area to get information about generating reports. If you use reports that are in the style of IBM Rational Focal Point, you can generate reports in .rtf or .pdf format. If you use reports that are in the style of IBM Rational Publishing Engine, you can generate reports in .doc, .pdf and .html formats.

To use the XML export to generate reports in external reporting tools, see Extracting a report using report integration.


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