Central Management component

Use the Central Management component as a central library for storing assets that can be accessible to all of the users in your organization.

The Central Management component is a catalog for assets that can be reused by the report designers and report generators in your organization. When assets are uploaded, they are stored on the same server where your Web Services application is deployed. Assets generally include URLs and values to artifacts.

The purpose of using the Central Management component is the reuse of common assets within your organization. An administrator, for example, might create a JavaScript file and store it in the Central Management component for anyone in the organization to use without any knowledge of writing JavaScript. The Central Management component is not a place for versioning or auditing files as a source control mechanism would be, but a place for accessing commonly used files.

There is an administrative user interface for managing the assets for your organization and users with administrator permissions can organize a directory system for the assets. With the contributor user permissions, users can also submit or modify assets from their Document Studio applications.

The Central Management component must be set up to use snippets or template libraries.

What can be stored in the Central Management component

Table 1. Asset types for the Central Management component
Asset type File extension Example value Description
Data sources Not applicable http://server:port/data_provider/data.xml URLs to a data source or a data source schema, which are used to configure the document generation. Data files or data itself cannot be stored as Data source assets in the Central Management component. You can store them as Files and create a Data source URL to that file.
Document specifications .dsx C:\Users\user\Desktop\specification.dsx Links to document specifications or the document specifications themselves created in the Launcher application for configuring the output.
Files .xsd, .doc, .docx, .txt, .rtf, .png, .jpg, .gif C:\Users\user\Desktop\image.jpg Links to files or the files themselves to use as data, data source schemas, included files, or images. Archive files or links to archive files cannot be stored in the Central Management component.
Scripts .js C:\Users\user\Desktop\script.js Links to JavaScript or the JavaScript files themselves to use in the template elements.
Settings Not applicable true Remote document generation properties and preferences set for the organization. If the Override user value option is selected, the user cannot change the setting from the client applications.
Snippets .dta C:\Users\user\Desktop\snippet.dta Links to templates or templates themselves that contain sections of reusable elements that can be added to any template.
Stylesheets .css, .doc, .docx, .dot, .dotx C:\Users\user\Desktop\style.css Links to style sheets or the style sheets themselves that can apply consistent formatting to document output. If the style sheet contains macros, include the names of the macros that the style sheet contains so that report generators know which names to use in their document specifications.
Templates .dta C:\Users\user\Desktop\template.dta Links to templates or templates themselves created in the Document Studio application.
Value set Not applicable

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A collection of values that you can use to specify the configuration metadata for data source schemas or for variables.
Variables Not applicable Default_value A variable that can be reused in any template.

Predefined assets

The Central Management component comes with example assets for you to use actively in your organization or to serve as a model for the kinds of assets that can be submitted to the Central Management component. Predefined assets cannot be deleted or designated as private.

Accessing the assets

Review this list of roles that are assigned to users of the Central Management component to determine which tasks you are able to complete.
Table 2. Central Management component user roles
Role Capabilities
Central Management component user (rpe_library_user)
  • Can view public assets from the Document Studio application
  • Can use public assets to design templates
Central Management component contributor (rpe_library_contributor)
  • Can view assets from the Document Studio application
  • Can use assets to design templates
  • Can submit assets from the Document Studio application
  • Can modify their existing assets from the Document Studio application
Central Management component administrator (rpe_library_admin)
  • Can view the assets that are created by any user from the Document Studio application
  • Can use assets that are created by any user to design templates
  • Can submit assets from the Document Studio application
  • Can modify the existing assets that are created by any user from the Document Studio application
  • Can create assets in the Central Management component administrative user interface
  • Can modify existing assets that are created by any user from the Central Management component administrative user interface
  • Can remove assets created by any user from the Central Management component administrative user interface

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