IBM Rational Publishing Engine 6.0.6 (RPE) – Introduction

Course description:

This 1-day course teaches how to design and develop document templates in Rational Publishing Engine. The course content is compatible with the old and new product naming. Participants learn how to generate documents from templates, including data from supported applications. Modular design, reusability and formatting strategy and important topics in the course.

Note: This course is also applicable for users of RPE 2.1. Due to product numbering changes, RPE 2.1 is equivalent to RPE 6.0.

Objectives:

After completing this course, participants should be able to:

  • Explain key concepts and terminology
  • Explain the architecture and key components
  • Create and format templates
  • Generate document-style reports
  • Use data schemas
  • Define data sources
  • Use dynamic binding for accessing data
  • Create document specifications
  • Use conditions for filtering data

Participants:

This introductory course is for:

  • Project support teams
  • Those with a role in designing or developing reports
  • System and Software Engineers

Skill Level: New users

Pre-requisites:

It would be helpful to have skills or experience:

  • An understanding of basic programming constructs
  • Basic understanding about XML files and schema definitions

Topics:

  1. About this course
  2. Key concepts and terminology
  3. Product overview
  4. Architecture
  5. Creating templates
  6. Formatting
  7. Data schemas and data sources
  8. Dynamic binding
  9. Document specifications
  10. Using RPE templates from CLM-ELM
  11. Best practices

Duration: 1 day

Lab Environment: IBM Rational Publishing Engine 6.0.6Some lab exercises involve retrieving data from an external data source. IBM DOORS Next Generation 6.0.6 is used as this data source. The related steps are documented.

Delivery Method: Classroom or Instructor-Led Online (ILO)