How to preserve images?

I want to know if it is possible to save images for future modifications in DOORS. I mean, I select an image from a Word document and copy it in the Object Text of the specific requirement/object. If I want to modify this image in the future, I cannot, as it is an image.
Is there any way of importing images in an efficient way and having the opportunity of modifying them in the future?

Thanks in advance.
dx_doors - Wed Oct 10 06:59:48 EDT 2012

Re: How to preserve images?
adevicq - Wed Oct 10 09:03:22 EDT 2012

Hi,

You can select another image and replace (copy / paste) the one you have pasted in you object...
I don't see the issue here. If you want to edit the image within DOORS of course you won't be able (except maybe via OLE)
You can also use "picture objects" to associate an image to an object (check in the DOORS help)

Alain

Re: How to preserve images?
llandale - Fri Oct 12 13:01:32 EDT 2012

You want to deal with OLE objects which I think are MS-Office things. You can insert an OLE object in at least two ways:
  1. insert from an MS-Office saved file
  2. copied from within an MS-Office appication, then paste-specialed into DOORS. that is, copy the Office 'object'.
Any Text attribute can contain an OLE; in fact more than one. I don't know if there is a limit but it is much higher than could realistically be pasted into a single attr-values.

The OLE in DOORS can be modified:
  1. "Edit", which opens a crude office window inside the Object and lets you do crude editing
  2. "Open" which opens the source application (e.g. MS-Word) with the OLE, which has more editing options.

DOORS still provides "Picture" support which is inferior to OLE support. A "Picture" can be associated with the Object itself and is displayed in the main column. An Object may have no more than one "Picture". The picture is some form of static bit-map and is (for practical purposes) non-editable.

If you have a "Picture" you want in DOORS, it is better to just wrap it in an OLE object and put that in DOORS. You could open Word, create a Word Object, insert the picture, then copy and paste the Word object into a DOORS object attr-(text)-attr value.

-Louie