Limitations of the SoDA migration utility

The current implementation of this migration utility has limitations as outlined.

SoDA Commands

Name Description
OPEN OPEN commands that have multiple arguments are not supported in this version.
REPEAT The following sections of a REPEAT command are not supported:
  • Predicate
  • Ordering
  • Recursive replicator
LIMIT The following sections of a LIMIT command are not supported:
  • Transform
  • Predicate
For the LIMIT command, IBM® Rational® Publishing Engine will create a container and will add a condition to this element. The condition body will be SoDA LIMIT Predicate. After generating the template, you should edit this condition in accordance with the LIMIT predicate.

LIMIT OMIT and LIMIT OTHERWISE are treated identical with the simple LIMIT command.

DISPLAY The filter feature is not supported.

Microsoft Word elements

Only the following properties are read from the SoDA template and set in the resulting IBM Rational Publishing Engine template for the generated elements.

Elements Elements

Paragraph

inherited style name (only if the style is a heading type one), paragraph alignment, top border style, top border width, top border color, right border style, right border width, right border color, bottom border style, bottom border width, bottom border color, left border style, left border width, left border color, before spacing, after spacing, multiple line spacing, first line indent, hanging indent, left indent, right indent, level number, numbering style.

Text

font color, font size, font family, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, character spacing, subscript, superscript, all borders style, all borders color, all borders width, text background color.

Field

font color, font size, font family, bold, italic, underline.

Table

cell spacing, table alignment, top border style, top border width, top border color, right border style, right border width, right border color, bottom border style, bottom border width, bottom border color, left border style, left border width, left border color.

Cell

top border style, top border width, top border color, right border style, right border width, right border color, bottom border style, bottom border width, bottom border color, left border style, left border width, left border color, cell text top padding, cell text right padding, cell text bottom padding, cell text left padding, cell background color.

Image

image width, image height, image alignment.

Hyperlink

font color, font size, font family, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, underline color, character spacing, subscript, superscript, text background color.

Footnote

font color, font size, font family, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, character spacing, subscript, superscript, text background color, footnote type.

Table caption, Figure caption and Comment

font color, font size, font family, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, character spacing, subscript, superscript, text background color.

Row

row height, row repeat at page beginning.

List

numbering style

Page number and Total page number

font color, font size, font family, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, character spacing, subscript, superscript, all borders style, all borders color, all borders width, text background color.

Field

field code

Master Page

page orientation, paper size, paper height, paper width.

Header

header from top

Footer

footer from bottom

Customizing IBM Rational Publishing Engine

Other Limitations

Certain SoDA data sources can map to multiple IBM Rational Publishing Engine schemas. You cannot perform operations such as Join in these scenarios. The data sources will be added to the IBM Rational Publishing Engine resulting template. You have to manually add a condition on the desired template elements to perform the Join operation.


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