The Expere Administration Tool
Administration Tool basics, Knowledge Base Repository, Command Line Options
- Administration Tool Basics
- Expere Knowledge Base Repository
  - Opening an Existing Repository
    With the Admin Tool running, open the Expere Knowledge Base repository by completing the following steps:
  - Expere Knowledge Repository Structure
  - Secondary Structure: Lines of Business
  - Understanding Precedence
  - Working with Precedence Units
  - Working With Lines of Business and Phases
  - Release Management
  - Working With Build and Analysis Tools
    - Build the Requirements and Content Editor Database
      After you make structural changes to a repository for custom content, for example: adding precedence units, you must build the database so the new precedence units can be displayed (and associated with documents) in the Editor.
  - Create a Content Build
  - Using the Expere Runtime Load Option
  - Analyze and Load Content Updates
  - Generate the Interactive Merge Report
    When you want to examine all merge points, simultaneously comparing your content to existing base and incoming content, run the Interactive Merge report. You can step through each merge point one-by-one to analyze the impact of each content change, and then decide which version of the content to keep.
- Command Line Options

Working With Build and Analysis Tools

The Admin Tool includes utilities to perform the following:

Building Expere content repositories in REQ and legacy ERL formats
Generating Requirements and Content .xml*or databases
Building and loading REQ and ERL formats to Expere Runtime
Load to Expere Runtime

The Administration Tool includes an Interactive Merge Report. This report shows the content merge points and allows you compare the common base content to the existing and incoming content in one display.

Note: When building content for directly processed REQs, notice:

All output files are writable (no files are Read Only)
Dynamic and Static documents are exact copies of the original