FileNet P8 Rendition Engine, Version 5.2            Operating systems:  Windows

Installing and configuring authoring applications

Before you can use Rendition Engine for document rendering, you must install all of the supporting authoring applications that are used to create and render publication documents and configure the applications to run without user intervention.

Before you install Microsoft Office:

Install and configure the supported authoring applications that are used to create and render publication documents on each IBM® FileNet® Rendition Engine server you plan to use.

Important: Use the FNRE_Admin account created in Users required for Rendition Engine installation when installing the authoring applications.

Perform these steps on each Rendition Engine server.

To install and configure authoring applications:

  1. Install the authoring applications for the type of document that you plan to render to PDF or HTML. For example, for Word document rendering support install Microsoft Office Word, for Excel document rendering support install Microsoft Excel. For a complete list of supported applications, see System requirements: Hardware and software requirements for IBM FileNet P8..
  2. Confirm that the authoring application starts and runs without user intervention.

    To render documents accurately, Rendition Engine requires the authoring application to run cleanly, without problems, and without dialogs or prompts. After you install the authoring application, start the application to confirm that it runs properly without dialogs opening, including the registration dialogs.

    1. Start the Microsoft Office components. When the Microsoft Office application is started and registered, press ALT+F11 to load and register the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) editor.


Last updated: October 2015
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