You can publish the document from Launcher and Document
Studio.
About this task
Use the Publish option in Launcher and Document Studio. The
publish option is also available in the
Rational® DOORS® and
Rational Tau add-ins.
You can publish the document manually from the Launcher.
Procedure
To publish the document using the Publish wizard:
- In the Launcher or Document Studio, click .
- Click Next in the Welcome screen.
The next page displays the Document Specifications and Templates that
are available directly from the IBM® Rational Publishing Engine Library.
- In the Browse to a Document Specifications or
a Template window, select a document from the file tree
or browse to a different location. You can also specify an URL to
a file.
- Click Next. A table is shown listing
the details of all available data sources. For example, the template
file, the name and the type of the data source along with a Configuration
field that allows the data source to be configured. An optional variable
description appears if the Show Variable Description check
box is selected.
- To configure the data source, in the Configuration field,
click the
button. This
opens the corresponding data source configuration wizard. Click Next.
- In the Configure the Output window,
click Add Output and select the output types.
Click ellipses button in the Stylesheet column and select a style
sheet for HTML and Word output types. Click ellipses button in the File
Path column and select an output file path.
Note: If
the File Path column is left empty, the file is generated in the temporary
location.
- Click Next. In the Select
Document Generation Options window, either select Save
Document Specification for scheduled publishing check
box, to save the Document Specification containing all the selections
to a custom location or select Publish Now check
box, to start the publishing process.
- Click Next. The last window shows
a summary of all the selections made in the wizard. Review the information.
- Click Finish.
To publish
the document manually:
- In the Launcher, under Document Specification page, right-click Template and
select Add Template or Add Template
from URL to add the templates.
- Right-click the Data source and click Configure
database. Follow the instructions in the wizard to complete
the data source configuration.
- Optional: Click the variable, in the Properties view,
and type the value for the variable.
- Optional: Expand Output, right-click the Target and
select Configure Output. Specify the output
settings for the selected output.
- Click or click
.
Results
This loads the document specification in the Launcher and
publishes or saves the document depending on the selections.