Document Builder

The IBM® Rational® Publishing Engine Document Builder provides a web interface for building reports from templates, generating and viewing documents. It contains a document generation service.

Two roles are usually involved in creating a document: the report designer and the everyday user.

  • Report designers can upload templates that they created in Document Studio along with style sheets into Document Builder. 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.

Document Builder capabilities

Document Builder provides the following capabilities:

  • Everyday users do not need to install the Rational Publishing Engine desktop application to generate documents.
  • Alerts notify you when document generation is completed, with links to the documents.
  • Download all document generation results or individual file types.
  • Share documents through unique URLs.
  • Schedule document generation jobs to run at a specific time or interval.
  • Report on projects that have configuration management enabled.
  • Report designers can hide complexity from document generators.
  • Report designers can combine one or more templates to create reports.
  • Report designers can create draft reports.
  • Report administrators can monitor running document generation jobs.

What's the difference between templates, reports, and documents?

A template is a resource that a report designer creates in Rational Publishing Engine Document Studio using data source schemas, variables and styles. Templates have the file extension .dta.

A report is assembled from one or more templates or stylesheets. Templates correspond to sections of a report. For example, you might have different templates for table of contents, front cover, body, index, and back cover. These templates can be reused in different documents.

A document is generated from a report. Users can find reports that the report designer created and then generate documents with a single click. Documents can be in Microsoft Word, HTML, PDF or XSL-FO formats.


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