Reporting with the desktop client
Learn how to author templates and generate reports.
- Template assistant
You can use the template assistant to help you create a new template. - Getting started with creating and customizing templates
The following topics provide important information to review before you get started designing documents that match your organizational requirements. - Getting started with generating reports
The following topics provide important information to review before you publish documents with Rational® Publishing Engine. - Settings for the Document Studio and Launcher client applications
You can customize your Document Studio or Launcher client application by setting preferences and settings of your choice. - Authoring templates with Document Studio
You can design templates using Document Studio. The help topics in this section provide conceptual information and instructional assistance to support report authors and report developers as they design document templates. - Defining document specifications without the document generation wizard
Use the Launcher to generate documents from saved document specifications. The Launcher generates Microsoft Word, HTML, and two types of PDF outputs simultaneously. Each of these target formats can be configured to use style sheets, Microsoft Word templates (.dot files), or cascading style sheets. - Creating archives
Create an archive file of all related artifacts in your template so that a complete set of files can be emailed to another user or stored in other locations. By creating an archive, you do not have to manage or send multiple files for someone else to view the files or generate documents. - Previewing a document with the document generation wizard
For documents with large amounts of data, you can generate a document from the Launcher and Document Studio applications with only a subset of the data to decrease generation time. - Generating a document with the document generation wizard
You can generate a document from Launcher and Document Studio. - Discovering an OSLC resource for global configurations
You can discover the value of a configuration URI to support configuration aware document generation.
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