RPE Template

In this blog article I will present a solution for a problem that you can have when you are using attributes with the same name. First you need to have No option checked in RPE Document Studio Preference Page for “Use schema annotations for display”. In order to show the advantages of the Alias feature I modified [...]

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Bi-directional text is text containing text in both text directionalities, both right-to-left (RTL) and left-to-right (LTR). The string is considered to have RTL direction if it contains RTL characters and the runtime locale is BiDi. Text processing The text that have special semantic meaning (such as file paths) in RTL-oriented locales will be processed so that they [...]

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There are some situations when we want to set some formatting properties of the Template elements based on the values of data attributes. For example we can set the Heading style for a Paragraph element using a java script expression that produce a value based on a Data Source attribute value. To exemplify this idea we [...]

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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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