Table attributes

I know I can select the attribute to be displayed in a table.
And I know I can save this in a view.
But can I display ATT1 in VIEW1 and ATT2 in VIEW2?
I can't seem to manage and DOORS help is not too clear about it.
Is it possible at all?

Karl
feeling stupid today
kabr - Tue Jul 20 05:39:10 EDT 2010

Re: Table attributes
Reik_Schroeder - Tue Jul 20 06:18:07 EDT 2010

Hi Karl,

there is a menu entry "View/Table Attribute ...".
With the dialog you can change the attribute to be displayed in Doors tables.

You can also choose, if this should override the attribute settings for the table.

I did a fast try on ist and caould create two views with different attributes are shown in table.

Regards
Reik

Re: Table attributes
Peter_Albert - Tue Jul 20 06:21:32 EDT 2010

The DOORS help gives the impression that it could be possible to save different atributes to be displayed in different views. However, you need edit access to the table in order to select a different attribute, which makes it unlikely that the information is actually stored in the view. I guess that it is stored somewhere in the table root object, and hence can't be different for different views. A quick test confirmed this, so, no, unless someone proves me wrong I would say you can't display different attributes in different views.

Well, you could of course have an attributeDXL attribute which calculates its value based on the current view, and, depending on the view gets its value from ATT1 or from ATT2. Then you display this attribute in the table cells. Probably worth a try.

Regards,

Peter

Re: Table attributes
Peter_Albert - Tue Jul 20 07:28:01 EDT 2010

Peter_Albert - Tue Jul 20 06:21:32 EDT 2010
The DOORS help gives the impression that it could be possible to save different atributes to be displayed in different views. However, you need edit access to the table in order to select a different attribute, which makes it unlikely that the information is actually stored in the view. I guess that it is stored somewhere in the table root object, and hence can't be different for different views. A quick test confirmed this, so, no, unless someone proves me wrong I would say you can't display different attributes in different views.

Well, you could of course have an attributeDXL attribute which calculates its value based on the current view, and, depending on the view gets its value from ATT1 or from ATT2. Then you display this attribute in the table cells. Probably worth a try.

Regards,

Peter

Reik must have written his reply while I was writing mine. Now it seems that with View --> Table attribute you can set the table cell attribute and save it to a view. I was only looking at Table --> Properties --> Attributes.

So, if you want to display a certain attribute in all tables, then with View --> Table attribute you are fine. If, however, you want to display this attribute only on a given table, and the Object Text in all other tables, then you have to set the attribute in View --> Table attribute, make sure that "Default attribute overrides table settings" is not checked, and set the attribute for all other tables to "Object Text" via "Table --> Properties --> Attributes".

Peter