Hello everyone, I am new to DOORS 9.6 and I am looking for a way to create a reference link form an object in DOORS to a: figure, table, reference document, paragraph. For example. The object text in DOORS would say something like . This can be shown in XXXXX. In this case XXX would be a link to a figure, table so on. This would have to be able to be implemented in Rational Publishing Engine 2.0 and eventually in word document.
Thank you Alex_4IBM - Tue Dec 01 10:29:23 EST 2015 |
Re: Referencing Tables, Figures, Paragraphs within Object Text Have you considered external links?
External linksYou use external links to create a link from a Rational DOORS object to an entity or resource that is outside the current Rational DOORS database. For example, you might create an external link to a website, or to a different Rational DOORS database. External links can be marked as URLs. Where an external link is a URL, it is treated like a hyperlink and is opened by the default browser. An external link is a one-way link to the resource it references. No corresponding link is created in the resource. You can create a link in the resource back to the Rational DOORS object by inserting the Rational DOORS URL in the resource. |
Re: Referencing Tables, Figures, Paragraphs within Object Text donnacruickshank - Mon Dec 07 09:02:04 EST 2015 Have you considered external links?
External linksYou use external links to create a link from a Rational DOORS object to an entity or resource that is outside the current Rational DOORS database. For example, you might create an external link to a website, or to a different Rational DOORS database. External links can be marked as URLs. Where an external link is a URL, it is treated like a hyperlink and is opened by the default browser. An external link is a one-way link to the resource it references. No corresponding link is created in the resource. You can create a link in the resource back to the Rational DOORS object by inserting the Rational DOORS URL in the resource. I have not, I will give it a try
In the mean time I decided to manually assign the values in text- however refer to DOORS ID of the figure/table and having RPE pull that ID when doing a Table of Figures or Table of Tables. |
Re: Referencing Tables, Figures, Paragraphs within Object Text DOORS does not really support cross-references the way Word does. Before the days of RPE we used to use a DXL script to insert cross references in the Object Text just before exporting the module. The script would first generate a sequence of numbered table titles for objects which had an attribute identifying it as a table title. The script would then parse all the Object Text values dynamically just before export and update coded references (e.g. [TabRef:ID45] for table reference object with DOORS ID 45) so that references referred to the dynamically generated table title number and its title for that table reference object. The DOORS module is then closed without saving at the end of the export. Not sure where that script is now as I have not done that for a few years. There may be a cleverer way of doing it with RPE but I have not investigated this. Sean |