Import PDF in Doors or using external links

Hi Everyone,

 

I am working on a new Doors project. We have to satisfy a list of standards which are described in PDF. For certification purpose later one, we need to have nice traceability between the standards and our requirements.

 

My question is how do you usually link to certain standards which are described in PDF?

 

I have two solutions in mind:

  • Using external links and adding named destination in PDF (PDF_URL#nameddest=DestinationName)
  • Importing the PDF to Doors: This is not easy because the PDF content is full of Math Equations, Pictures, Graphs, tables, ... any recommendation on how to best get the content to doors (PDF -> RTF or PDF->Word then use office doors plugin to push to doors) ?

Thank you in advance for your comments and reaction to my question.

Kind Regards,

Yassin


YassinBen - Mon Sep 10 05:51:48 EDT 2018

Re: Import PDF in Doors or using external links
davidcs - Wed Sep 12 09:20:13 EDT 2018

I think the consensus in the DOORS community is importing Word/PDF into DOORS is not a trivial task, unless the document was originally exported from DOORS. If the data must be in DOORS and the size was large enough... it may make sense to make a custom importer. I would try to avoid this and think the linking idea has merit and is definitely worth trying.

Re: Import PDF in Doors or using external links
YassinBen - Wed Sep 12 09:30:48 EDT 2018

Thank you for your input. I decided to import the document manually, line by line, object by object. the document was confidential and didn't want to use any online converter and risk illegal document usage. all the math equations have been taken as screenshots and directly inserted into doors (windows snipping tool worked fine).it took me two days to manually create around 2000 doors objects.

Investing time in a custom importer solution might have took me more than 2 days and would have made sense if I have had more than 400 pages.

 

 

Re: Import PDF in Doors or using external links
davidcs - Wed Sep 12 13:22:26 EDT 2018

YassinBen - Wed Sep 12 09:30:48 EDT 2018

Thank you for your input. I decided to import the document manually, line by line, object by object. the document was confidential and didn't want to use any online converter and risk illegal document usage. all the math equations have been taken as screenshots and directly inserted into doors (windows snipping tool worked fine).it took me two days to manually create around 2000 doors objects.

Investing time in a custom importer solution might have took me more than 2 days and would have made sense if I have had more than 400 pages.

 

 

I wish there was a better solution to this. This is how we have handled this in the past and is a good approach. It is painful manually importing data into DOORS but know your not the first or last person who will have to do it.