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IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing

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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 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio 0 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...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio 1 Future consideration

Improvement to Excel output from Publishing

In the Excel output generated from Publishing, the images are floating and the table will spread across multiple columns and rows. Thus the Excel export from Publishing is not really useful. It will be good if the images and tables from DNG (or ET...
about 5 hours ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / EDG 0 Submitted

Update existing template with the modified template.

The Publishing Document Builder cannot update the existing template with a new template that modifies the external variable. This limitation causes a lot of manual work time because we need to update each report with the new template. If we could ...
7 days ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing 1 Needs more information

External Variable type/kind for Document Builder should allow other type then String

When defining external variable for RRDG we can refer to:https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/RRCCustomRRDGReportsConfigurations I want the equivalent for Document Builder.Is there a way to have other format then String for the user to enter, like ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing 1 Under review

new field for versioning Assets in Document Builder

current situation: If an report is executed in the Document Builder and a document gets generated then it is not documented which dta file version, which word template version and - if used - which javascript library versions were used to gener...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 9 Future consideration

Configure timeout for REST datasource

Whenever a REST call GET is made on a REST datasource, there is a fixed timeout of 5 minutes. Some database do not always answer within 5 minutes, eg.g. some GET to ETM Feeds might take significantly longer.The Timeout for GET on REST datasources ...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Integrations 1 Future consideration

If you install DOORS 9 on a different path than the default, the Document Studio (RPE) does not work properly, requiring manual modification of the configuration file. I suggest a enhancement on the installation wizard asking for the DOORS path.

It would be useful for the installation wizard to prompt for the DOORS path to avoid manual issues later, streamlining the process and enhancing the user experience with Document Studio (RPE).
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Installation 1 Future consideration

RTF export from descriptions of Rhapsody model elements

I'm searchin a way to export the description of a use case from Rhapsody to Word using the PUB. A constraint what I have is not to use Word-Macros as these can contain viruses and are not allowed in our company. Therefore I need a solution to publ...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio 4 Not under consideration

upload report template to PUB via URL

It is possible to download an template from PUB by putting an URL into a browser. e.g. following URL will download template#5: http://<server>:<port>/rpeng/api/templates/5?action=download Unfortunately our reports are developed in RPE ...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 5 Not under consideration

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