formating text objects

Hello,

i use rational doors 9.2 and have serveral problems:

1st) I copied a word text into an object but their are tapstops
in front of the text which cant be delete. Is their any possibility
to get this word- formatting out of the the doors object?

2nd) After exporting the modul into word, below each OLE- object is a
new row/object insert, which containes meaningless text like see figure.
Is it possible to turn this off?

3rd) I want to get bilingual headlines. The Doors modul is bilingual,
means their are two columns with different language. The headlines are also
translated, but when the modul becomes exported, word only takes the language
of the "main" column. Is it possible to get in the (automatically created)
table of contents and in the headlines the native language and the translation?

4th) Is it possible to lock up single objects in the modul for treatment?
I hope someone of you can help me with this problems

Kind regards

attavulpa
attavulpa - Mon Sep 27 05:55:39 EDT 2010

Re: formating text objects
SystemAdmin - Tue Oct 05 13:24:32 EDT 2010

1) Please copy text from word to notepad first, and only from there to DOORS. This will remove all rich text formatting copied from Word. If you have formatted text inside DOORS, you could run some dxl to remove rich text, or similarly cut and paste the text to notepad, and then again back to DOORS.

2) I can't see a file, so can't comment on that. Also if in Word you had some hidden text etc., those would not show up in DOORS but would show up again if you export to Word. ...I do know of other Word bug in 9.2.0.3/4/5 and that is when empty table cells show as heading numbers (and not as empty cells as they should be), and horizontal line breaks also show as headings in Word (which really does not look good in the table of contents).

3)I do not know about this area:-(

4) If you share module in exclusive edit by Tools->Setup for sharing, you can define which sections or objects you want to lock for editing. You can do this for specific objects also from Properties->Access->take off "inherit from parent". This makes object shareable, and in shareable edit -mode, you can lock only that object or section for editing, while other persons can in shareable edit work on other objects. If this is not what you mean, then you could "prevent" anyone else from editing an object by setting edit accesses for only you for that object, and after you finish editing, you could set accesses back to normal. Then there is partitioning, where you can take parts out of DOORS, and after editing bring them back but maybe that is not what you are after either...

Re: formating text objects
Bob_Swan - Thu Oct 07 03:35:26 EDT 2010

w.r.t. point 1:
Try looking up 'applyTextFormattingToParagraph' in the dxl help.
I don't use 9.2 so don't know if it is still there.

Attached is a (poor) script that removes (most) leading indents.
It doesn't get used often enough to justify my time and effort to make good use of buffers instead of strings.
I can't remember the exact reason for the warning about 'check all deletions'. I think it was because in some cases I had imported documents that would also lose the tab after a bullet mark.
Hope it helps.

As a general rule I do as much of the text tidy/clean before importing as Word has better tools than DOORS in that area.
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attachment_14539837_Remove_Indents.dxl