Configure the data services for the Rational® RequisitePro® shared
libraries, define Rational RequisitePro as
a data source in Rational Publishing Engine.
Note: Make sure you have installed and deployed
Rational Publishing Engine Data
Services with the
Rational RequisitePro adapter.
See
Deploying Data Services.
- Connect to a data source schema. See Adding data source schema.
- Schema can be on the local file system. Use the REST schema discovery
to create a data source schema. See, Creating REST data source schema.
- Or, any URI that is accessible from the computer. You can construct
a URL that points to the data source schema. Open your data source
schema and from the xml file take the URI for a particular resource.
Add “?metadata=schema” at the end of the URI. A typical URI is structured
like this: https://[server:port-number]/service/cc/testcase/trace?metadata=schema.
You can use the elements in the data source schema to add queries
in your template. These queries specify what pieces of information
are ultimately generated in the report. See Creating REST data source schema.
- Once you have connected to the data source schema, you can create
or import a template design. With the Rational Publishing Engine Document
Studio you can build a report template design. This design determines
the layout of the report. See Designing documents.
- Plan the structure of your document and define the content to
extract data. See Template development process to
get an overview of the template development process. For very large
documents you can create separate templates for each document block.
- You can use filters, which are more specific versions of the general
data source URI, to point to specific subsets of data so that Rational Publishing Engine
does not attempt to retrieve more information than necessary from
the Rational RequisitePro repository
during report generation. These filters must be broad enough to retrieve
all necessary data referenced by the template or the generated report
will be incomplete. See Extracting data using native filters.
- Once you've finished creating the report template and populating
it with Rational RequisitePro data
points, you can generate a report in a variety of formats. When you
generate a report, you must connect to the data source that contains
the information on which you want to run the report. To point to the
relevant data, see Assigning values in document specification file.
- Before you publish your document, see this topic Set
the output format to understand the available output options
that you can choose from.