I have a specfication that has an Appendix section at the end of the document. I want to incorporate this data into the DOORS module. Here's the catch...
The heading number includes the Appendix letter as part of the heading. For instance:
Appendix A has
A.3.1
A.3.1.1
A.3.2 (and so on...)
(Problem also is I already have section 3 objects in my module. I have all the way down to object 6, so the next object would be numbered '7' in the heirarchy.)
How does one create objects in DOORS to include a letter in front of the heading number, and number them accordingly as noted above? Can this even be done?
Thanks in advance! GK
gkane - Tue Mar 29 10:46:17 EDT 2011 |
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Re: Adding an "APPENDIX" Section to a Module...
llandale - Tue Mar 29 16:40:49 EDT 2011
The MAIN doors Heading and Text column will always display numbers, 7.3.1 in your case.
You could simulate the MAIN column as follows, but will lost link indicators. You could have an attr dxl "ParaNumber" that gets the <number(o)>, and if it starts with "7." change that to "A."; change "8." to "B." etc. Display that value. Building the rest of the MAIN is a little tricky.
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Re: Adding an "APPENDIX" Section to a Module...
morganm@GDLS - Wed Mar 30 19:33:54 EDT 2011
If your main interest in accomodating an appendix is for export purposes, such as to MS Word, you can handle this by setting the Paragraph Style attribute for heading objects to use the Appendix heading styles (i.e. "<Object Heading:App Heading 1>") you would find in MS Word. Then when you export to Word, export the main body (i.e. sections 1-6) and then your Appendices (i.e. sections 7 & 8, for App A & B) via filtering on "Object Number". However, when you export the appendices, select to NOT "include DOORS heading numbers".
This should help with exports, but when you look at sections while in DOORS, sorry, its still going to show 7.x, etc.
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Re: Adding an "APPENDIX" Section to a Module...
gkane - Thu Mar 31 08:56:00 EDT 2011 morganm@GDLS - Wed Mar 30 19:33:54 EDT 2011
If your main interest in accomodating an appendix is for export purposes, such as to MS Word, you can handle this by setting the Paragraph Style attribute for heading objects to use the Appendix heading styles (i.e. "<Object Heading:App Heading 1>") you would find in MS Word. Then when you export to Word, export the main body (i.e. sections 1-6) and then your Appendices (i.e. sections 7 & 8, for App A & B) via filtering on "Object Number". However, when you export the appendices, select to NOT "include DOORS heading numbers".
This should help with exports, but when you look at sections while in DOORS, sorry, its still going to show 7.x, etc.
Thanks for the replies!
Just one of the drawbacks in trying to migrate some old legacy documentation into DOORS. This particualr spec created 2 appendices which outlined requirements for 2 supporting components of the main component...not what we would do in today's practice...they would be 2 other separate specs.
Anyway, worth a try...too much of a work-around and not worth the headache.
I appreciate the knowledge on exporting with the heading styles, that helps with exports for sure.
Thanks again!
GK
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