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IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing

Remember sizing of the script window

Context : When using Publisihing Studio to modify a RPE template, we add scripts in our templates. To edit the scripts, the editor opens a new window with two sides : one to select the used variables, and one to write the script itself. Problem : ...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio Not under consideration

Possiblity to use table styles from a Word stylesheet

Context : Different projects have different needs in term of document templates, fronts and styles are part of these needs. Problem : As of today, elements such as border thickness and color, background color can be customized with a variable for ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Usability Future consideration

Project Areas for Document Builder

As an Application administrator I want to organize Document Builder in projects areas so I can manage user access or create team areas like other Jazz Applications (RM, ETM, EWM, ...) Context : When using Document Builder I have to configure a pub...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder Not under consideration

Proposal to Simplify iFix Upgrade Process for PUB with Direct WAR Patch Deployment

I would like to propose an improvement to the current iFix upgrade process in the Publishing Document Builder. Currently, upgrades require a side-by-side installation, which involves installing a new instance, copying necessary files, and then uni...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Installation Future consideration

Readability enchancement for external variables

Context : More users use or will use Document Builder as the main tool for publishing specifications instead of the thick client. The templates have a lot of external variables which values they can change, and some users have ten or more modules ...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Usability Future consideration

Enhancement Configuration Metadata

We are going to introduce the Configuration Metadata functionality which exists at a Data Source as well as at external variables in a template (dta-File). If we retrieve a lot of data (e.. all Modules or all Artifacts of specific type) then ... 1...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder Under review

Add a Column to Results Table: Connection

From a Report definition perspective, the Data Source Connection is a key differentiator between differing implementations of the Template for execution. Having this information provided in the Results Table would greatly aid Users in identifying ...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Usability Future consideration

Make Report Builder able to export unfiltered XHTML representation of an artefacts primary text

When integrating report builder reports with PUB document generation, obtaining the primary text for the artefacts of a module in XHTML representation from report builder can significantly speed up document generation compared to retrieving this i...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing Under review

keep Caption together with table/figure

In PUB 7.1 the caption of a figure is printed above the figure. If the figure does not fit on the current page while printing it moves to the next page. Request: Printing of captions for figures and also for tables should be printed together with ...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder Future consideration

Provide queue for generated report

There are some milestones in the projects where a bunch of documents have to be generated in a relative short time frame. We observed that if report generation has been started and the number of total jobs has been reached then all additional repo...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder Planned for future release

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