You can generate reports that are in the style of IBM Rational Publishing Engine or Focal Point by using different report templates. To generate reports, you must have report templates.
About this task
To generate reports that are in the style of Rational Publishing Engine reports, add report templates as .dta files that are authored in Rational Publishing Engine. To generate reports that are in the style of Focal Point reports, add report templates as XML.
Procedure
1 From the user menu, select Administration.
2 On the Administration page, click General > Report Templates.
3 Click Add Template.
4 In the Add Report Template window, select a report target corresponding to the available template source format:
To
Complete the following step
specify the template in XML
Select Focal Point.
upload a template file that was authored in IBM Rational Publishing Engine Document Studio in .dta format
Select Rational Publishing Engine.
upload a template file created in Telelogic Publishing Engine
Select Telelogic Publishing Engine.
When Telelogic Publishing Engine is the report target, the generated output is a compressed file instead of a completed report. The compressed file contains the template, XML, and images. To complete the report, run Rational Publishing Engine Document Studio Launcher.
5 In the Title field, type a title for the template.
6 In the Description field, type a description for the template.
7 Specify the contents of the template. Depending on the report target, specify the contents as either XML or as an uploaded file that was created in Rational Publishing Engine or Telelogic Publishing Engine.
If you specify the contents as XML, click Validate XML to verify the consistency of the XML.