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Throughout this article you’ll see how you can get some specific DOORS details from a module, like : –    modification status –    cell width –    irregular tables –    cell borders Here is the test module : … the RPE template : … and the output document : To obtain this “mirror image” of the DOORS module content, you can follow the indications bellow [...]

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To create a nice looking Header we will use a Table element with one Row having 3 Cells. In the first Cell we want to display some text, in the second Cell we want to display a text that will be retrieve dynamically from a data source, and in the third Cell we will display an Image representing a logo.

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Rational Publishing Engine sees a DOORS table as a DOORS object child. To extract DOORS tables we will use a query like: Module/Object/Table. For example, let’s consider the following simple scenario: We want to extract from a DOORS module all objects. For each object we want to have in the output document the Object Heading attribute value and [...]

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Rational Publishing Engine provides a special Container. Why is this special ? This is special because it can be inserted directly in a Table, directly in a Row or directly in a List and it can have  Row elements, Cell element and List-detail elements as children.

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In some cases numeric data is much easier to understand when presented as a chart. Rational Publishing Engine does not have a special module for chart generation like BIRT or other specialized reporting tools, but leave open the possibility to generate charts using javascript language and some charting engines.

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There are several differences between the Paragraph element and the Container element. The Container element does not provide to the user formatting features. The Container purpose is only to be a placeholder for other Rational Publishing Elements. The Paragraph element provides a large set of formatting properties, including styles. A Paragraph can be a placeholder for other RPE elements [...]

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When we need to use data recursion? Let’s suppose that we have a schema like in Figure 1. We want to extract the list of SRRequirements (Software requirements). For each SRRequirement we want to extract all children requirements, for each child requirement we want to extract all children requirements and so on. In other words, for [...]

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Using command line users can run Rational Publishing Engine automatically at a specific date/time.

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