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Provide basic version control of template/reports assets

It is important that we know which template generated a report. It would be ideal if each version of the template that is uploaded to document builder maintained a version number. Added to this there should be an ability to switch to a version of ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 2 Future consideration

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...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 9 Future 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

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...
6 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...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 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

Document Builder should support ETM local streams or it should not list ETM local streams

Document Builder supports local configurations for DNG/RM. It does not support local configurations for ETM. However, ETM local configurations/streams are listed in the UI just as they are for RM/DNG. Selecting a local ETM streams cause the Docume...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 6 Is a defect

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 ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 5 Not under consideration

Need to be able to upload a template and have all dynically referenced templates be uploaded with it (inlcuding updating the dynamic references)

Currently we have to manually deploy 20+ templates from the local file system to the document builder server, then update the main template dynamic references to point to the new locations on the server. Each update takes approx 5 minutes to compl...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 1 Not under consideration

Search for users by name, not ID

In every other part of ELM, a user is searchable by their name (not just their ID). In our organisation, user IDs are just a series of 8 numbers, i.e. 12345678 making it very difficult to share assets reports and documents with specific people. Th...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 4 Not under consideration

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