Reporting in Composer

With the supplied RRC reports there is some limited formatting customization that can be made to the Microsoft Word templates. Once the formatting has been completed in the template it then needs to be re-initialized on the server.

This help topic provides more information on the re-initialization:

https://jazz.net/help-dev/clm/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.rational.rrdg.usage.doc%2Ftopics%2Ft_rrdg_make_reports_avail.html

Manually importing custom document-style report templates for requirements management

To add or modify a template, complete the following steps:

1. On the server machine, navigate to the following directory: https:// server :9443/ application context root /reporting/initialization/templates
2. Navigate to the appropriate sub-directory, and make the necessary changes to either the Rational Publishing Engine or Microsoft Word template using the appropriate tool. For Rational Publishing Engine templates, you will need a licensed copy of the Rational Publishing Engine Document Studio tool.

Now if you want to make more significant changes to the reports, like adding new data sources then a licensed copy of the Rational Publishing Engine Document Studio tool is needed. This help topic provides an overview:

https://jazz.net/help-dev/clm/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.rational.rrdg.usage.doc%2Ftopics%2Ft_create_docstyle_report.html

You can try organizing the artifacts in the view how you want them to be displayed (ordered) before generating the report, most of the time this works for sorting the artifacts (I say most of the time because it's not a supported functionality but I've found it to work 90% of the time) this will depend on which report you're running.