Saving a document specification

When you save a document specification, you have the choice of saving it with user credentials stored in it or saving it without the user credentials.

About this task

  • When you are saving document specifications for sharing with other users, you might not want the credentials for a specific user entered. By saving the document specification without credentials, you are ensuring that the personal data of users is secured.
  • You can save document specifications to your local computer, a remote server, HTTP, and HTTPS locations.

Procedure

You can either:
  • Save the document specification with user credentials by clicking File > Save As.

    The document specification is saved and the user names and passwords for referenced files such as templates, data sources, and style sheets are stored.

  • Save the document specification without user credentials by clicking File > Save Document Specification without credentials.

    The document specification is saved and the user names and passwords for referenced files such as templates, data sources, and style sheets are not stored. Only the document specification is modified; the referenced files are not modified.

What to do next

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.

For more information about how user names and passwords are stored, see Security considerations for IBM® Rational® Publishing Engine.


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