Leveraging MS Excel macro to simplify RPE template design

One of RPE (now called PUB)’s weaknesses is its complexity, which comes at a price for RPE being a highly flexible, generic document style report generation tool. RPE template designer needs to know about schemas, reportable APIs, data URLs and how they are connected. Designing a template with multiple levels of traceability in table layout becomes bit complex as dynamic data source configuration elements need to be mashed within table rows or cells. Template designer needs to figure out how to nest all of those dynamic data sources within a table row and to add containers around table rows which is not easy. In this article, we will see an example (focusing on Microsoft Excel output), where arranging the data in the correct tabular format is taken care by a post-processing macro.

How to get eSignature details from WorkItem?

For compliance purposes, you may need to provide eSignatures (enter the password) at specific points during the workflow of a WorkItem. If you are using workitem schema (https://server:port/ccm/rpt/repository/workitem?metadata=schema) from RTC (now called EWM), the signature-action can be extracted with custom E-Signature attribute, but the signature comment cannot be extracted. To get e-signature comment, you can use generic schema.

Why my Studio is too slow?

If you are using Remote Desktop to access RPE/PUB Studio, you may find the Studio too slow. The slow response is because of the windows process “rdpclip” (Remote Desktop Clipboard) that allows users to manage a shared clipboard between a local host and remote desktop. To fix the slow response, you can do either of the following:

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Printing a table that is too wide

How to get a table that is too wide (having too many columns) to flow to the next page?

Suppose you have a table is too wide to fit in the page (even in landscape mode), it will be either unreadable (too narrow columns) or truncated.

Thank you

It’s 6 years since I started working on Rational Publishing Engine. I’ve enjoyed every bit working with such a great team and the product, which allowed to improve myself alongside making the product stronger.

We know RPE is still important and will continue to grow stable and stronger. RPE 6.0.6 iFix001 was released on 29th Sep 2018, which mainly concentrated on improving the quality of the product. The product development will be carried on by my team of strong and passionate folks and will continue to add features with more attention towards Document Builder web solution.

RPE 6.0.6

RPE 6.0.6 is now generally available. We concentrated on improving template designer experience, enterprise security and the document output formats.

Render Test Script Step Description Rich Text (XHTML) with Execution Variables

How to extract and render Test Script Step Description Rich Text (XHTML) with Execution Variables.

Thanks to Jeffrey Babylon for making time to write this article and sharing it with all of us.

Note: The following Test Script Steps below assume your RPE template already retrieves the Test Script or execution result where the steps live.

Watson IOT: Continuous Engineering Summit Europe 2018

IBM Watson IOT CE is happening in Europe for the fist time. It is scheduled for 14th to 16th May, 2018 at Munich, Germany. Do register to learn and share your experience.

The event will deliver in-depth technical content targeted at architects, developers, testers, integrators and managers by offering lectures and hands-on labs to expand your knowledge and expertise on the latest technologies, trends, tips and techniques. More details at http://conference.learnquest.com/CE-Summit-Europe/

RPE 6.0.5

RPE 6.0.5 is now generally available. Yes, it is 6.0.5 and not 2.1.x. We aligned our version number with rest of the Continuous Engineering (CE) and Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) solutions.