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IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing

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Nullish Coalescing

Nullish Coalescing Operator and Assignment are not supported by RPE/PUB yet
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio 1 Not under consideration

Allow customers who have PUB licenses to generate reports in DNG beyond 8GB heap restriction

This is useful because it would allow us to generate the configuration comparison report in DNG. We are not able to generate this report in DNG as we have a large number of changes, even for small project areas. For example, EDG would require abou...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / EDG 1 Not under consideration

UX: Ensure User Input Variable Support with "Generate Later"

Currently, under Reports, there is a column: Generate Therein, are 2 icons/options: Generate Document; Generate Later.Generate Later, does NOT provide any of the necessary User Input screens for the User to provide the necessary values of key vari...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 1 Future consideration

Upload template and all referenced templates from the Publishing Client to Document Builder

Currently the only way to develop templates is to use the publishing client. The publishing client works of files on the file system. To migrate any template so that is available in Document Builder you must use a separate process to upload the in...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 4 Not under consideration

Enhancement to jobs API of RPENG to have more meta information

Currently the /api/jobs API gives information of all the jobs along with the job results of each job.As of today, there is no information about the connection details and template details along with the template variables that can be identified fr...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 3 Not under consideration

External boolean Values as Checkbox in RPENG

Hello to all, for documents that use external variables of type Boolean there are two different representations. In DNG they are displayed as a checkbox. In the RPE or also in the RPENG they are shown as string (true/false). It would be great if t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio 3 Future consideration

Request to Add Styling Capability for Include File in RPE

Hi Team, Currently, there is no option to apply styles to Include files in RPE. We would like to have an option to apply styles to Include files. Why because we have text formatting options provided for all other elemnts in RPE but for file type i...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio 9 Not under 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...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / EDG 2 Future consideration

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 ...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing 4 Not under consideration

Use user-friendly Combobox as input for external Variables

The use of combo boxes as input for external variables would be a modern and customer-friendly variant to adjust various parameters during document generation. On the one hand, static values should be allowed there and on the other hand, dynamic v...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 2 Not under consideration

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