Define Rational® Tau as
a data source in Rational Publishing Engine.
Note: If you are running Rational Publishing Engine and Rational Tau on
Linux disable the Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) feature. Often
with SELinux enabled, the application may crash when extracting data
from Rational Tau.
- Get familiar with the Rational Tau UML
model and the Rational Tau schemas
needed in order to extract data from Rational Publishing Engine.
See Rational Tau infocenter.
- Connect to a data source schema. See Adding data source 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. A data source schema can be
automatically generated using the predefined schema built from the Rational Tau metamodel,
see Creating Rational Tau data source schemas.
- Create or import a template design. With the Rational Publishing Engine Document
Studio you can build a report template design. See Designing documents.
- Once you have connected to the data source schema, you can 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.
- Once you've finished creating the report template and populating
it with Rational Tau 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.