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.
Note: Rational Focal Point supports
only version 1 of Rational Publishing Engine template.
- In Rational Focal Point,
create a display view based on the elements in the module.
Procedure
- In Rational Focal Point,
click . Make a note of the server name.
- 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.
- Import the Rational Focal Point schema
to Rational Publishing Engine.
- In Rational Publishing Engine Document
Studio, click . Click Next in
the wizard.
- In Schema type field, select REST.
- In Schema file field, click Browse and
select the path to the Rational Focal Point XSD
and click Next. A window to
authenticate the user is displayed.
- Provide the authentication required to connect to the Rational Focal Point server
and click OK.
- Validate the information and click Finish.
- 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.
- Generate the report after creating the report template.
For more information, see "Publishing a document" 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_publishing.html.
What to do next
Add the file as a report template in
Rational Focal Point.
For more information, see
Adding a report template.