I previously posted in DOORS DXL and have not gotten any responses, so I'll re-post it here as it might not be a DXL issue. I am new to DOORs and DXL. So bear with me. I would like to change the format of the header and footer in the export-RPE-word document. Specifically, I would like to add the baseline version to the document. What does not make sense to me is the DOORS page setup. I can set up a nice page for printing. But cannot save the output to files that I can use. The export functions seem to have very limited formatting capability. PS I am using DOORS 9.3 althousem - Mon May 20 13:57:52 EDT 2013 |
Re: Modifing export RPE format RPE does need a little time to understand the principles behind it and to make the most of it you really need to understand DOORS but.... it is quite powerful in that it allows you to set up (almost) everything you want in terms of formatting. For your specific issue of getting the baseline details into the header or footer.... These are DOORS module properties, so you find them in the list of attributes for the module. The attributes are things like baseline Version, baseline Major number/minor number, created by, created on, baseline description, etc. You can get all of this into your Header/footer or anywhere else by dragging the Attribute onto your RPE template, for example. The headers/footers are controlled on master pages, not on the template Content page of RPE. Not wanting to Sound rude but you Need some Startup Training and then some time to Play with RPE (and Word Stylesheets if you Export to Word). |
Re: Modifing export RPE format Thanks for responding. Like I said, I am new to DOORS. The help system, does not satisfy. It only describes have to publish the default to word. - Only two options for header/footer - logo and heading. I tried entering attribute name for baseline version etc. - did not work. Do you know of tutorials for RPE export? When I search on the on-line DOORS documentation for "template", all I get is an article that says that the doors.dot Word template cannot be modified. BTW - My module has a baseline defined. When I open the module properties - there is not attribute for baseline or version. There is created by, date, modified. There is an RPE header and RPE logo that correspond to the only two items in the dialog. They are marked "Internal use Only. Do not modify". We have had DOORS installed for a few years. The people who first used it have all left. So I'm trying to get some use out of our previous investment. I can add data from attributes to a printed document. But I need them on a digital document.
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Re: Modifing export RPE format althousem - Fri May 31 16:13:11 EDT 2013 Thanks for responding. Like I said, I am new to DOORS. The help system, does not satisfy. It only describes have to publish the default to word. - Only two options for header/footer - logo and heading. I tried entering attribute name for baseline version etc. - did not work. Do you know of tutorials for RPE export? When I search on the on-line DOORS documentation for "template", all I get is an article that says that the doors.dot Word template cannot be modified. BTW - My module has a baseline defined. When I open the module properties - there is not attribute for baseline or version. There is created by, date, modified. There is an RPE header and RPE logo that correspond to the only two items in the dialog. They are marked "Internal use Only. Do not modify". We have had DOORS installed for a few years. The people who first used it have all left. So I'm trying to get some use out of our previous investment. I can add data from attributes to a printed document. But I need them on a digital document.
There is this (from an IBM partner) but it is very short --> http://www.slideshare.net/reportingarena/formating-style-and-stylesheet-usage-5256811 Alternatively, a 1-day RPE training from IBM (no, I don't work for them) would be enough to get you going. There are also occassional webinars from IBM about RPE. |
Re: Modifing export RPE format I assume that you are referring to the built-in DOORS option (Export > Document Generation > Word) rather than a full RPE export. If this is the case, then there is no way to do what you wish.
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Re: Modifing export RPE format What I was attempting was the file->export->RPE->Word option It allows user to specify two entries "heading" and "logo" which appear in the created document header. The minimal goal is to put the baseline version number somewhere on the title page or document header or footer. I saw on-line reference to RPE tools. Is this toolset required in order to implement any changes in the default RPE export options? If I were to use the file->export->office->word option, how would I specify module attribute fields to be inserted into the document? How would I modify the template to do this?
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Re: Modifing export RPE format althousem - Wed Jun 05 13:43:51 EDT 2013 What I was attempting was the file->export->RPE->Word option It allows user to specify two entries "heading" and "logo" which appear in the created document header. The minimal goal is to put the baseline version number somewhere on the title page or document header or footer. I saw on-line reference to RPE tools. Is this toolset required in order to implement any changes in the default RPE export options? If I were to use the file->export->office->word option, how would I specify module attribute fields to be inserted into the document? How would I modify the template to do this?
Yes, that version :) For a very short time the menu was indeed File->Export->RPE->... before it was changed to File->Export->Document Generation->... That is a subset of the Rational Publishing Engine, I believe it's called "Rational Reporting for Document Generation" (RRDG?) now. From the beginning it was only possible to generate documents with the built in templates that shiped with DOORS, and there only change logo and header... Now, however, you may create you own custom templates in the full product RPE Studio and use RRDG to generate them. However, you still do not get access to the full RPE Launcher, unless you have a RPE license, so you cannot do any "generation time" adjustments, like modifying external variables used in the template... So, I guess, you need to 1) get RPE to make your custom templates and 2) upgrade to DOORS 9.5 (or was it one of the later 9.4.0.x versions) to be able to run the custom tamplate from DOORS without an RPE license. If you want to change the std Word exporter, that would be DXL - the exporter is unencrypted and found under ...\DOORS\9.5\lib\dxl\standard\export\office\word.dxl. Make a copy of that and try to modify it :) /sekrbo |