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Generating documents from SSL certificate-enabled environments You can now generate documents from the Rational Publishing Engine desktop client by using a certificate (.p12) file or a smart card, which are more secure than logging in with a user name and password from SSL certificate-enabled environments. Although a certificate file and a smart card are different, both are certificates that are used for authentication. Certificate authentication is more secure than BASIC and FORM-based authentication. Certificate authentication uses HTTP over SSL and authentication occurs by using a public key certificate that is issued by a trusted organization, which is known as a certificate authority.
Setting smart card and certificate authentication in RPE Document Studio and Launcher Image of smart card authentication:  Image of certificate authentication:  Functionality now supported with certificate authentication Both the Configure Data Source dialog box in RPE Launcher (see images above) and the Add Schema dialog box support certificate and smart card authentication. Image of the Add Schema dialog box in RPE Document Studio:  Two new data source properties are available: - SSL Certificate Path: Select path to certificate file. - Smart Card Certificate: Enter smart card certificate alias name. Image of the new properties:  |
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Designing templates and generating documents from HP ALM as a data source You can use Rational Publishing Engine to generate documents from HP ALM. RPE can report on this data with the productized REST API that uses a JSON serializer. You can find the resources supported in the HP ALM documentation (see https://alm-help.saas.hpe.com/en/12.50/api_refs/REST/Resources.htm). Limitation: Currently, RPE authentication does not work for REST API resources that return data in XML. |
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Automatically complete tags during advanced search When you search for a specific asset or connection, an auto-complete feature makes it easy for you to see a list of matching tags while you type. This enhancement helps you to search for assets or connections, without having to remember the exact tag name.
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Generate Microsoft Excel documents In Document Builder, support is now available for Microsoft Excel as an output format. You can now generate and download documents in Microsoft Excel format. Image of Microsoft Excel option in "Design reports" page:  Image of Microsoft Excel download option in "View generated documents" page:  |
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Movable modal dialog boxes You can now move and resize the modal dialog boxes. Sometimes it is necessary to see background data when the modal dialog box is open.
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Serviceability improvements When users start document generation by using Document Builder, the progress details are logged in the rpedgaas.log file. Each document generation job can be identified by a unique job ID, and the time it finishes is also logged. Here is part of a sample log file: 23-07-2017T19:41:19:156+0530 [Default Executor-thread-13] Document generation 17136976-3C21-4818-8084-84DFA6BF186A started. . . 23-07-2017T19:41:23:639+0530 [RRDG_288:305-CORE] CRRPE3571I Finished reading input XML. 149 elements processed. 23-07-2017T19:41:23:692+0530 [RRDG_288:305-CORE] Processed 200 input elements. . . 23-07-2017T19:41:26:156+0530 [RRDG_288:305-CORE] CRRPE3596I Total data request time: 0.415 seconds 23-07-2017T19:41:26:157+0530 [RRDG_288:305-CORE] Total data request time: 0.415 seconds 23-07-2017T19:41:26:158+0530 [RRDG_288:305-CORE] Finalizing document generation. Writing output files... 23-07-2017T19:41:33:263+0530 [RRDG_288:305-CORE] Document generation finished in 10 seconds. |
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Support for Jazz Team Server server rename with JTS authentication Now when the Jazz Team Server (JTS) is renamed, it communicates with Rational Publishing Engine Document Builder to update its database with the new JTS URL. The next time you log into Document Builder, you are redirected to a new JTS URL for authentication instead of the invalid old JTS URL. |
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Support for generating Microsoft Excel documents You can now generate Microsoft Excel documents from the Rational Publishing Engine desktop client. The Rational Publishing Engine template elements that are supported are Paragraph, Container, Text, Hyperlink, Image, Table, Row, and Cell. Most of the basic properties of these elements are also supported. Image of the Excel option added in the document generation configuration:  Image of the Excel option in the document specification:  Image of the output result window:  Image of the output in Microsoft Excel:  |
| Platform enhancements |
New platform support Rational Publishing Engine now supports SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, Windows Server 2016, and Microsoft SQL Server 2016. |
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