Creating a document specification
Before documents can be generated, the templates and data
sources need to be connected. This connection information is maintained
in the document specification file that is stored on your system.
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Tip: You can use relative paths, HTTP paths
, or HTTPS paths to related resources in document
specifications. When you use relative paths, you can change the directory
structure of your files or move them to the central asset management
system and still access the files necessary to generate documents. You are prompted to choose between using
relative paths or absolute paths when the document specification is
saved, when the template is in the same folder as the document specification,
when the template is in a child folder of the folder that contains
the document specification, or when the template is in a parent folder
of the folder that contains the document specification. You cannot
specify a relative path to a parent folder of a parent folder.
Creating a blank document specification
Procedure
Creating a document specification in the wizard and populating it with selections
Procedure
Customizing the default document specification
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When you create a document specification, it is based
on the document specification template located in <RPE_installdir>/utils/docspec.dsx.
You can modify this template to change the default configuration values
such as:
- Set document output format. For example, if you are only working with Microsoft Word output, set the document specification to output to Microsoft Word only.
- Set default metadata property values. For example, set the maximum image width to 400 pixels.
- Set default output format properties. For example, set the stylesheet to rpe.dot.