Subramanya Pilar

Before generating a document with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization – Publishing (PUB), end-users must configure the data source and provide a number of inputs. Though this cannot be avoided, we can make the user experience better by enabling value selection instead of manually entering the values, thanks to the Configuration Layer in PUB. Configuration layer […]

IBM Engineering Test Management (ETM) offers Grid sections, which are basically tables with a header (columnNames) and one or more rows (values). You can add and remove Grid sections for individual test plans or test cases. In this example, we have a Grid Section to define a set of licenses needed for the given test […]

For IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization – Publishing (PUB) to generate rich text, we need the rich text data in a format that PUB accepts. If you consider UseCase description or Class Description returned by IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody (Rhapsody), it is in RTF format. The Rhapsody data source schema allows us to choose the […]

Using captions for images and tables will make the documents clear, professionally presentable and easy to follow. It is imperative that you create the captions for your tables and figures correctly, so that Table of Tables and Table of Figures are updated correctly. In this article, we will see how to use Figure Caption / […]

This article covers how to design a template using IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization – Publishing (PUB) Document Studio to report for multiple user input values. Instead of having multiple document specification (.dsx) files for each user input and running them using a batch file, we are going to use a single document specification file that produces multiple output documents.

Inserting a file as an object into the Word output document offers several advantages over hyperlinks. First, users can transfer output documents with embedded objects (compound Word document) to other computers or mail them without breaking any links. Second, users can edit embedded objects without changing the content of the original. Sometimes, this separation is precisely […]