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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Rational Programming Patterns
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 2, 2019

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Publish xml segments

As a user of the Programming Patterns publish feature, I would like more control over how the xml file is created. When selecting multiple segments, and including their 'referenced instances', the referenced instances are not in the correct order or even grouped with the segment that they belong to. For example, if I select two segments, the two rpp:standardsegment elements are printed first and then all of the elements (unordered) are printed. I would like the elements to be sub-elements of the segment and in the same order as the -ce for that segment.
The workaround is to publish each segment individually and then copy/paste the documents into a single xml document.
Attached is a screenshot of the published xml document showing the two rpp:standardsegment first, followed by all of the rpp:dataelement in a random order.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    |     Dec 19, 2019

    I know that is not the way it currently works. I was asking for it to be improved. Because there is almost no reason to use publishing in it's current state. I don't think it is a bug. I think it could be better.

  • Guest
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    |     Nov 19, 2019

    We have evaluated this request and determined that it cannot be implemented at this time because this is not the way the publication works. The part "referenced entities" contains all the entities referenced by the original entity but there is no order in the published list. If you think there is a bug, you can enter a PMR and we will provide you explanation about this.

  • Guest
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    |     Jul 2, 2019

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