Video library
The following videos are task-focused and provide hands-on experience on various features of IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing.
Desktop client
- Overview of Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing
Discover how IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing helps you generate documents from IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management products and selected applications that use XML and REST interfaces.
- Generate requirements document from DOORS® Next Generation
in the desktop client
Learn how to generate requirement document from DOORS Next Generation in the IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing desktop client.
- Editing templates with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization -
Publishing - A simple template with static
text
The video takes you on a tour of Document Studio and shows you how to add simple elements to a template.
- Editing templates with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization -
Publishing - Add a Engineering Requirements Management
DOORS Next Generation schema
Learn how to print the content of a specific Doors Next Generation module in a document.
- Editing templates with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization -
Publishing - Connect to data source, generate a
document
Learn how to configure a data source, generate an output document, and create variables.
- Editing templates with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization -
Publishing - Formatting your document
Learn how to use the data source configuration element with a DNG Text data source, add a script expression, and inherit a data configuration.
- Editing templates with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization -
Publishing - Add headers and footers
This video demonstrates best practices for reuse by adding headers and footers by using stylesheets, and adding disclaimer text by using the Include File element.
- Editing templates with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization -
Publishing - Troubleshooting and debugging
Learn how to troubleshoot and debug problems by looking at the Console view, viewing the log files, and by using the built-in debugging tools.
- Generation Microsoft Excel document
Microsoft Excel output is available for generating documents from the IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing desktop client or Document Builder. Supported template elements are Paragraph, Container, Text, Hyperlink, Image, Table, Row, and Cell.
Learn how to generate Microsoft Excel document by using PUB Launcher.
- Microsoft Excel output improvement
Learn how to take advantage of the enhancements to Microsoft Excel output in IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing. You can now span rows and columns, output images in cells, insert a new worksheet, and specify the names of subsequent sheets.
- Guided tours in Document Studio
IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing provides you with guided assistance in Document Studio to help you quickly build templates and generate documents for specific data sources.
Learn how to start the guided tours and to view the introductory tour and the DOORS Next Generation tour.
- Generating configuration-aware document-style reports using the desktop client:
Learn how to generate documents from different ETM configurations by using the IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing desktop client. The documents contain test plans and associated test cases and results.
- Support for PDF/A output enhancement
Learn how to generate PDF output in PDF/A complaint format by using PUB launcher.
- Smart card and SSL certificate authentication
Learn how to generate documents from the IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing desktop client by using a certificate (.p12) file or a smart card. You can enter smart card or certificate authentication details at several places in IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing.
- Certificate authentication in Publishing Document Builder
Learn how to manage SSL certificate authentication in Publishing Document Builder.
- Live Document Preview
Document Studio provides a live Preview view, where you can see the output as you design the template in the template editor, without having to manually generate the document and open it. You can quickly verify the output with live or cached data, which is especially helpful when you are debugging a template or working with scripts.
Learn how you can see the output by using the Live document preview feature.
- Math equations
Learn how you can add mathematical equations such as quadratic formula in IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing. Write the mathematical equation with the MathML markup language and then add it as a script expression in your template.
- Adding a Jazz® Reporting Service graph into a
template
Learn how to drag a graph from Report Builder into a PUB template, and generate a document that displays the chart.
- Kerberos authentication
For designing templates and generating documents in the desktop client, you can now authenticate with CLM applications that are using the Kerberos or SPNEGO SSO (single sign-on) protocol. This authentication method is more secure than logging in with a username and password.
- Add icons to the table of contents for HTML output
Learn how to add icons to the table of contents for HTML output in the IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing desktop client.
- Customize TOC font size and style for HTML split mode
Learn how to customize TOC font size and style for HTML split mode IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing desktop client.
- Customize TOC names for HTML split mode
Learn how to customize TOC names for HTML split mode IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing desktop client.
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Installing and deploying IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing.
- Installing from the online repository using IBM Installation
Manager
Learn how to install from the online repository by using IBM Installation Manager.
- Verifying the desktop installation
Learn how to verify the desktop installation.
- Web UI installation and set up
Learn how to install and set up the web UI.
- Verifying the Web UI For more information
Learn how to verify the web UI.
- Installing from the online repository using IBM Installation
Manager
- JavaScript enhancement.
Learn how to work with JavaScript assets in IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing. In Document Studio, the JavaScript editor now includes line mark, syntax color, and content assist. You can also add the JavaScript as a reference link in the template.
- Generating document from Atlassian JIRA
Learn how to construct a URL to obtain JSON data from JIRA. You'll also learn how to add the JSON schema in Document Studio and generate a document from a template designed to display JIRA issues.
Publishing Document Builder
- Sample assets or resources
IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing has many new sample assets that you can use to generate documents from different data sources. This demo shows how to generate a document from a sample DOORS Next Generation template.
- Generating configuration-aware documents with Publishing Document Builder
Learn how to generate documents from different Engineering Test Management configurations by using IBM IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing Document Builder. The documents contain test plans and associated test cases and results.
- Monitoring and controlling document generation jobs in Publishing Document Builder
Learn how administrators can manage document generation jobs that are running on the server by pausing, resuming, or canceling jobs in Publishing Document Builder.
- Generate comparison document in Document Builder
Learn how to create a document that shows the differences between two different versions of an IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next Generation module.
- Document generation
resilience
Learn about document generation resilience and how to see the logs in the Job details section in the Publishing Document Builder.
- Install Document Builder from ELM installation
Learn how to install the IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing (PUB) Document Builder on a server for your organization by using the IBM Installation Manager wizard.
- Automatic deployment to WebSphere® Liberty
The Publishing Document Builder web application is now automatically deployed to the WebSphere Liberty application server when you install IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing. No manual configuration is required for deployment.
- Resource picker
Learn how to browse and select a resource without accessing the product or modifying the URL.
- Simplified connection association
Learn about connection association in Publishing Document Builder.
- Folder enhancements in Document Builder
Learn how to create a folder and subfolder, move, and copy a resource or asset from one folder to another, drag, function, and organize the report in the folder.
- Improved workload distribution for load balancing.
Learn about the types of load-balancing algorithms, how to set the values, and how document generation is held by using different DGaas nodes.
- Reuse JavaScript in a template
Learn how you can define code modules inside a PUB template to reuse the functions that are defined there, everywhere else in the template.
- Generate requirements document from DOORS Next Generation
in the desktop client
Learn how to build a document template, find the data that you want in your document, configure a document specification, and generate a PDF document.
- Publishing Document Builder authentication with Jazz Team
Server
Learn how to set up Document Builder with Jazz Team Server authentication map Jazz Team Server roles to Engineering Publishing roles.
Integration
- Generating documents from HP ALM data
Learn how to access the HP ALM data by using the REST APIs in JSON format to create a document that tracks defects or other artifacts in HP ALM.
- Generating documents with JSON data from Git Lab
Learn how to generate document from GitLab and GitHub. IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing (PUB) can retrieve data from the REST API provided by these tools. Template designer can use various options that are provided by PUB, such as sorting and filtering..
- Creating Reports on Rhapsody® Models with
PUB
Learn how to report on Rhapsody models by using IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing v1.2.
- Duplicate connections and reports
Learn how to make copies of your data source connections and reports in IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing.
- Palette View
In Publishing Document Builder, the Palette View in Document Studio is now organized into drawers. This feature can be enabled or disabled.