What’s new in Rational Publishing Engine 2.1

• Guided tours and template assistant
• Web app capabilities - Report designers
• Document Studio

Rational Publishing Engine 2.1 contains the 2.0 web app, the 1.x Web Services, and the desktop client. You can use the web app to build, generate, and view documents. The web app contains both a web user interface and a document generation service.

Guided tours and template assistant

• New in this release of the web app are guided tours. These tours are short tutorials that guide you through the most common workflows, step by step.
  
• New in the desktop client is the template assistant, which provides you with step by step guidance on creating a template, adding a data source, populating your template with data and elements, formatting, and generating a document. The blue text boxes guide you through the required actions, and the Guide view supplies additional details and links to the product documentation.
  

Web app capabilities - Report designers

Report designers can hide complexity from everyday users:

• You can show all of the reports that are using a template.
• You can make copies of data source connections or reports and then edit them.
• You can update your existing reports so that they have the latest properties. If there is a new property in this release that you want to use in an existing report, you can open your existing report, make a change, and then save the report. Your report can now make use of any new properties that were added in version 2.1.

Document Studio

• It is easier to create traceability documents as you can now use the POX (Plain Old XML) profile to convert OSLC URLs to reportable REST URLs. See Creating traceability documents from CLM applications using the POX profile
• You can integrate Document Studio with the 2.0 web app, so that you can load assets from the web app into Document Studio and work with them there. See Connecting to the web app component.
• You can drag and drop web URL resources onto the Document Studio template editor to create new templates, or to create a link to a web resource in an existing template. 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.
• You can drag and drop data attributes from the Data Source View to any of the following template elements:
  • Bookmark
  • Hyperlink
  • Image
  • Include File
• You can use a Microsoft Word document as a starting point for a new document template by dragging the Word document into Document Studio. See Creating a document template from a Microsoft Word document.
• There is a new Document Outline tab in the template editor where you can work with a simplified view of your template. See Viewing the structure of your template.
• New snippets and templates are available.
• You can now call the function defined in one JavaScript code element in another JavaScript code or script expression by setting a Library script property on the script code. See Adding a JavaScript code element.