Creating Reports on Rhapsody Models with Rational Publishing Engine v1.2

Posted on 2013/05/08 by

Andy Lapping has put together an excellent tutorial on generating documents with RPE from Rhapsody Models. The tutorial assumes very little RPE knowledge  from the viewer and it introduces all the components and concepts used including very new concepts such  as the Central Library. At the same time the tutorial never loses focus and everything  that is presented serves achieving the end goal: generating a document from a Rhapsody Model.

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoQgh9h4pxg
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osjZUgjiS3U
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RPE 1.2.0.1

Posted on 2013/04/27 by

RPE 1.2.0.1, the RPE 1.2 fixpack, is now available. The list of defects and other useful information can be found here while the the update can be downloaded from FixCentral here.

The main theme of the release is defect fixing and that includes PMRs but also the work we have done to adjust, simplify and make more consistent some of the features we have introduced in 1.2.

We’ve also worked to improve the RPE performance, focusing on the core processing part. The RPE core processing  is the document generation part that lies between data input and writing the output files.

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CLM Traceability with RPE

Posted on 2013/03/08 by

Geoffrey Rosenthal has put together a great article on using RPE for CLM document generation. See Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management Traceability Templates with Rational Publishing Engine

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Producing large documents with RPE

Posted on 2013/03/08 by

When creating large Word but especially PDF documents in RPE it is possible for the process to fail with an Out of Memory error. The RPE Infocenter describe several solutions for solving Out of Memory Errors.

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Remote Document Generation – server cleanup

Posted on 2013/02/15 by

The RPE 1.2 WebServices ships with improved cleanup facilities. As an administrator you have now the ability to choose when results will expire from the server.

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Why do conditions evaluate to false when they should evaluate to true?

Posted on 2013/02/07 by

RPE 1.2 has changed the way variables are passed between assignments and conditions.  Prior to RPE 1.2 all variables were transformed to strings when introduced in a script expression. With RPE 1.2 the variables are no longer transformed to strings and they keep the type and exact value they received in the last assignment.

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Tutorial – create a RPE template for DOORS

Posted on 2013/02/05 by

The IBM website hosts a recorded tutorial for designing a RPE template for DOORS data: Automated document generation with Rational Publishing Engine Even though RPE 1.1.1 is used, the tutorial is still actual and provides an excellent introduction to many RPE notions and usage scenarios.

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