Noteworthy items in the 2.0.1 release of IBM® Rational® Publishing Engine.
Rational Publishing Engine 2.0.1 contains the 2.0 web app, the 1.x Web Services, and the desktop client. You can use the web
app to build, generate, and view documents. The web app contains both a web user interface and a
document generation service.
- Report designers can upload templates that they created in Document
Studio along with stylesheets into the web app. They can assemble
the templates into reports and create data source connections.
- Everyday users can then generate documents from the reports with
no template coding knowledge or configuration required.
If you use the web app, you might not need the 1.x remote services, unless you need to connect
directly to the desktop client.
Important: After you upgrade to version 2.0.1 and redeploy the web
app, you must log in to the web app, clear the web browser cache and then log in again. Otherwise
you may be unable to successfully generate documents for any existing reports.
2.0.1 web app capabilities - Everyday users
With the web app, everyday users do not need to install the Rational Publishing Engine desktop
application or remote service applications to generate or manage documents.
2.0.1 web app capabilities - Report designers
Report designers can hide complexity from everyday users:
- Specify the file extension to use for Microsoft Word documents:
2.0.1 web app capabilities - Administrator
- Simplified way to change the authentication method on the Runtime Variables page.
- Administrators can set the time period after which documents are deleted. The default setting is
100 days.
Output enhancements
- Specify the file extension to use for Microsoft Word documents.
- Credentials for Text, Image, and Include File elements are supported with the Inherited data configuration property.
- Image width and height properties from XHTML files are applied correctly in Microsoft Word and
PDF output.