Generate the Documents You Need, Direct from COOL:Gen
With Repository Publisher, publishing a model for review need not be time-consuming and tedious. Repository Publisher lets you build documents through a point-and-click interface - simply use your mouse to drag and drop COOL-Gen object properties onto a report page exactly where you want the information to print - then select the diagrams you want to include for each selected object type.

Repository Publisher lets you control the content, sequence, and layout of model information. Plus, you can store and share your document specifications - reusing them with other models to speed future reporting for yourself and coworkers.

Create Documentation That Reflects the Quality of Your Work
Repository Publisher gives you more control over the content and format of documents - so you can create polished, professional design documents and presentations that reflect the quality of your object model. Publisher creates document files in ascii, Rich Text Format (RTF), and HTML, ready to read into your favorite word processor or web browser. You can add headers, footers, titles or any other formatting you want with ease. Your document is complete with integrated text and diagrams, so your word processor can generate page numbers, table of contents and index for the entire document. As a result, the Repository Publisher document is highly reproducible, and you can readily respond to needed changes during review sessions, software development, or software maintenance.

Decomposition of a BSD Action Block and an associated Action Diagram
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Create Documentations to Meet Every Requirement
There are as many different reporting requirements as there are COOL:Gen users. Repository Publisher gives you the flexibility to meet your unique documentation needs, from simple, text-only reports to compelling presentations with text and diagrams, or procedure summaries that include Activity Hierarchy Diagrams - with associated BSD, BAA and common action blocks (CABs) - and window and screen shots. With Repository Publisher, generating a document containing integrated text and graphics is easy. You can create a single document that presents all the relevant objects, associations, properties, and diagrams. You can create annotated diagrams that are concise and readable, and you can print the entire document together using a mixture of page orientations for the diagrams. With Repository Publisher, all the information resides in a single document, so you don't have to perform manual cross-referencing between reports, nor will you have to manually assemble the document when it is printed.

Integration of Data Model List and Text
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Get Your Ideas Across - Graphically
Repository Publisher lets you merge diagrams seamlessly with the rest of a document. Context-sensitive diagram placement keeps the diagram with the text for the related object.

Repository Publisher also lets you:

• Format a customizable caption for each diagram
• Request text wrapping around the diagram when space permits
• Format more than one diagram for an object
• Include a table of contents, a table of diagrams, and an index of objects that is automatically generated for you document

Integration of Windows & Text
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Distribute Project Information Without Leaving a "Paper Trail"
Communicating with your users or customers is easier than ever with Repository Publisher. Not only can you produce custom documents containing integrated text and diagrams, but you can distribute this information electronically. In addition to the RTF file which is ultimately output to a paper document, you can also generate a Windows help file. When Repository Publisher creates reports as Windows help files, the sections are represented a series of well-organized topics with hypertext links, making information easy to annotate and review.

Who Should Use Repository Publisher?
Repository Publisher is the right tool for COOL:Gen users who:

• Create strategic planning or analysis documentation from COOL:Gen Models
• Want to concisely summarize the results of a JAD session recorded in COOL:Gen
• Need high-quality documents for review sessions with their customers
• Produce documentation that must adhere to organizational standards
• Want to create documents that look sharp and are easy to understand
• Create hypertext documents for electronic distribution of models
• Must maintain existing systems where the original developers are no longer available
• Need immediate impact analysis reports