DOORS Custom Menu

Hello everyone,

I am currently working with DOORS 9.5 and was primitively successful in creating a custom menu option in my addins directory.  See the following link: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21396989

 

My problem is this...when I create subdirectories for my custom directory, I can see all levels of directories, but I can't see any of the dxl scripts that are in those subdirectories.  For example:

 

myMenu                  <-- custom menu, works fine
>DXL script1            <-- first script, shows up, works fine
>DXL script2            <-- second script, shows up, works fine
>DXL script3            <-- third script, missing and don't know why (although it has been entered into the .idx file like the others)
>Subdirectory           <-- first subdirectory, shows up, works fine
->DXL Script            <-- missing script, don't know why
->Sub-subdirectory      <-- first sub-subdirectory, shows up, works fine
->Sub-subdirectory      <-- second sub-subdirectory, shows up, works fine
->Sub-subdirectory      <-- third sub-subdirectory, shows up, works fine
-->DXL Script           <-- missing script, don't know why
-->Sub-sub-subdirectory <-- first sub-sub-subdirectory, shows up, works fine

I would like to find out why my scripts aren't showing up in the subdirectories.  I have edited the .hlp and .idx files accordingly, but no luck.

Is there some better documentation on how to improve this somewhere??


ScottKirkwood - Thu Oct 22 22:28:24 EDT 2015

Re: DOORS Custom Menu
sekrbo - Fri Oct 23 08:21:43 EDT 2015

I hope your dxl files start with the first line being a line comment and followed by a section comment.

 

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Re: DOORS Custom Menu
DoorsXLAustralia - Fri Oct 30 07:19:14 EDT 2015

The sub-directories have to contain a text file called '<sub_directory_name>.hlp'

If they did not then they would not show up so I guess they already do?

Try adding a '<sub_directory_name>.idx' text file with a line entry that matches the name of your DXL script  then 2 underscores and then a menu entry name e.g.

my_dxl_script _ _ My DXL Script

This normally causes the menu entry to appear with the new name 'My DXL Script'  but it should be optional so should not be required
Sean

 

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Re: DOORS Custom Menu
ScottKirkwood - Fri Oct 30 07:22:37 EDT 2015

sekrbo - Fri Oct 23 08:21:43 EDT 2015

I hope your dxl files start with the first line being a line comment and followed by a section comment.

 

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/*

 

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Absolutely! Anything less would be uncivilized! LOL