Guided tours and template assistant
Rational® Publishing Engine provides
you with guided user assistance right in the user interface to help you get started
quickly.
Document Studio - Guided tours
You can use the guided tours to help you build templates and generate documents for specific data sources.
To access the guided tours, click , select a tour, and click Launch.


Document Builder - Guided tours
These tours are short tutorials that guide you through the most common workflows, step by step. You can access them at any time from the Help menu.

Document Studio - Template assistant
When you open the template editor, the template assistant opens. The blue text boxes indicate where in the user interface to perform the task. The top navigation bar in the editor highlights which step you are on.
The template assistant walks you through the following tasks:
- Adding a data source
- Dragging and dropping template elements from the Palette to the editor
- Dragging data source objects to the editor
- Formatting element properties
- Editing the template outline
- Generating the document

The Guide view contains more detailed steps and direct links to the product documentation.

To disable the template assistant, open the preference page. Set the Enable Studio guide option to false.