Launcher

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The Launcher is a stand-alone application that is used to create document specifications and generate output document-style report from these specifications. The Launcher can also run from a command-line utility to generate a set of document-style reports. You can choose manual or wizard-driven document-style report generation, as you are most comfortable. The Launcher is also accessible from Document Studio; when used from Document Studio, you can automatically synchronize the document specification with the current template.

Tip: You can access both the Launcher and Document Studio from the toolbar as Eclipse perspective tabs:
  1. From either the Launcher or Document Studio application, click the Open perspective icon Open Perspective icon.
  2. Select the perspective to add.
  3. Click OK. Both the Document Studio and Launcher are accessible as tabs from your toolbar:
    Perspective icons from the toolbar.
Launcher perspective

 1 . Document Specification

Associates concrete data source with the document template and defines the output types.

 2 . Properties view

Displays the properties of the selected element and enables you to edit it. However, some properties, such as query path, are read-only properties.

 3 . Console view

Displays the document-style report generation status.

 4 . Problems view

Displays a detailed list of issues from the document-style report generation.