What’s new in Rational Publishing Engine 2.1.1
Noteworthy items in the 2.1.1 release of IBM®
Rational® Publishing Engine.
See what's new:
Rational Publishing
Engine 2.1.1 contains Document Builder and the desktop client. You can use Document Builder to build,
generate, monitor, and view documents. Document Builder contains both a web user interface and a
document generation service.
Note: In previous versions of Rational Publishing
Engine, Document
Builder was referred to as the web app.
Remote Services deprecation
The 1.x Remote Services applications (Central Management, Monitor and Control, Remote Document Generation, and Report Scheduler) are deprecated in this release. You can now complete these tasks by using Document Builder. See Migrating assets from 1.x Remote services to 2.0 Document Builder.
| 1.x Remote Services | Document Builder |
|---|---|
| Monitor and Control | View running jobs on the Job Details page. |
| Central Management | Assets can be stored in Document Builder. Report designers can upload and work with assets on the Design page. |
| Remote document generation | Generate documents on the Generate page |
| Report Scheduler | Schedule document generation jobs on the Generate page. |
Document Builder - Everyday users
- When you are grouping artifacts, you can expand or collapse all of the items.
Document Builder - Report designers
Report designers can hide complexity from everyday users:
- New sample assets are available for report designers to use, for example templates, snippets, scripts, and style sheets. The sample assets are designed to work with specific data sources, for example Rational DOORS® or Rational Quality Manager. See Document Builder samples for information on how to generate the sample assets.
- Report designers can upload and work with JavaScript files.
- Report designers can select all the assets in a view by clicking the check box in the table heading.
- Report designers can select multiple templates and click the Create Report from
Template icon
to load the selected templates into the Design reports page. See Creating reports from templates.
Document Builder - Administrator
- The 1.x Remote services are deprecated in this release. Administrators can migrate assets from
the 1.x Remote services application to Document Builder. See Migrating assets from Remote services to Document Builder.
- Administrators can now monitor long running jobs and pause, cancel ,or resume the jobs. See Managing document generation jobs.
Document Studio
- New guided tours help you quickly build and generate
documents for data sources such as Rational
DOORS and
Rational
DOORS Next Generation.Simply follow the steps in the Guide view for the tour that you choose.
- Improvements to the JavaScript editor include syntax coloring and content assist. You can also
include the JavaScript as a reference link in the template. See Adding a JavaScript code element.
- Drag and drop support for creating templates from web resource URLs is now added for
communication diagram and object model diagram URLs from Design Management, and graphical report
URLs from Jazz™ Reporting
Service Report
Builder. The resulting template and document specification is automatically configured with the REST
URL, credentials, and authentication type. See Creating a document template from a web resource URL.
New traceability templates
New traceability templates are available in both Document Studio and Document Builder, for example traceability between Rational DOORS Next Generation and Rational Quality Manager test cases.
Output enhancements
- You can now add mathematical equations to your documents. See Adding a text element.
- You can now set links on your images.
- You can add rich text inside links, for example <sub> tags. See Adding a hyperlink.
- The Legacy PDF driver is no longer supported. If your document specification points to the old legacy PDF driver, modify the specification to refer to the default PDF driver.
Platform enhancements
You can now deploy Document Builder with an Oracle database. See the following topics:
- Configuring WebSphere® Application Server with Oracle as a data source section of Deploying Document Builder on WebSphere Application Server
- Deploying Document Builder on WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile
Other enhancements
Rational Publishing Engine 1.3.0 and later supports document generation from CLM environments that are enabled for fine-grained components (for CLM 6.0.3 and later). Configuration for fine-grained components works the same way as for global configurations.