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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 : ...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio Not under consideration

Add error handler for ignored Data Source Configuration and Invalid Data Errors

Add an Error Handler for Ignore Data Source Configuration Errors -> trueand Ignore Invalid Data Errors -> truewithin elements in the template, so that context dependent messages can be printed into the log *and* into the generated document t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio Future consideration

User defined colors in RPE template elements

Is is very easy to lose track of where you are in a large and/or complex RPE template.ﾠ My suggestion is to allow the user to set the background color in an RPE element to simply give the user a visual reference of where they are.ﾠ This would be v...
about 7 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio Not under consideration

Microsoft Word Content Controls Handling

RPE/PUB is able to generate old “Document Properties” of Microsoft Word (of *.doc) but it doesn’t support yet the new “Content Controls” (of *.docx) or the Custom XML. Is there a way to create/fill a “Content Control” or “XML Attribute” by means o...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio Future consideration

"use strict"

JS inside RPE/PUB doesn't support "use strict" yet
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio Not under consideration

I am requesting that PUB must be able to generate reports from DOORS showing "Validate By" links with ETM

It is useful because customers will not be able to see their links in their reports if this capabilitie is not fixed
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio Future consideration

Master page properties "header from top" and "footer from bottom" should be able to take value from variable or script

In RPE Studio 6.0.6, master page "header from top" and "footer from bottom" properties cannot be variables, unlike top margin for example. We should be able to use external variables to specify these values, or why not, a script.
over 6 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio Future consideration

Ability to set column headings and number of columns dynamically

Standard RPE usage is to build a table header row, then iterate through data and build rows one at a time. This usage assumes I, as the template author, no exactly how many columns I will have in my table before I build the table. The out of the b...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio Future consideration

Graphically show inactive containers

Sometimes I'll be working on a complex template and due to how RPE works with its various queries and subqueries I want to start over and rebuild things. However I don't want to lose my current work. So I'll take a container and set its condition ...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio Not under consideration

Build in an XML validator/encoder

I'm developing a rather complex template that traverses multiple levels of links. Customer said, "We want to use our own custom RequirementID instead of the DNG generated ID"...so I implement via Javascript. Text script output is "<strong>"+...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio Future consideration

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