I have seen references to WEXP in multiple postings in DOORS forums. What is WEXP? Is it something different from the standard Word Export from DOORS? If so, where can I get information about WEXP?
Thanks,
Marjorie
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Re: What is WEXP?
kbmurphy - Mon Mar 01 13:55:32 EST 2010
WEXP is a Word exporter for DOORS written in DXL by Jeremy Dick when he was part of Telelogic Professional Services. It had a lot of features like being able to easily go from portrait to landscape, dynamic tables based on DOORS views, etc.
WEXP was not supposed to get out in the field, but it did, and it was free, unlike DocExpress, which Telelogic was trying to sell. When DOORS 9 came out, IBM/Telelogic purposely broke WEXP and started pushing RPE. When people like me complained that WEXP was being taken away with no upgrade/migration path, we were told things like, "WEXP was never supported."
That being said, RPE is a decent, yet hard to use tool that is not free. It gets the job done and works with more than DOORS. But setup of new templates isn't always straightforward and troubleshooting is much harder than WEXP, in my opinion.
Hope this answers your question.
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Re: What is WEXP?
ePiallat - Tue Mar 02 03:42:37 EST 2010 kbmurphy - Mon Mar 01 13:55:32 EST 2010
WEXP is a Word exporter for DOORS written in DXL by Jeremy Dick when he was part of Telelogic Professional Services. It had a lot of features like being able to easily go from portrait to landscape, dynamic tables based on DOORS views, etc.
WEXP was not supposed to get out in the field, but it did, and it was free, unlike DocExpress, which Telelogic was trying to sell. When DOORS 9 came out, IBM/Telelogic purposely broke WEXP and started pushing RPE. When people like me complained that WEXP was being taken away with no upgrade/migration path, we were told things like, "WEXP was never supported."
That being said, RPE is a decent, yet hard to use tool that is not free. It gets the job done and works with more than DOORS. But setup of new templates isn't always straightforward and troubleshooting is much harder than WEXP, in my opinion.
Hope this answers your question.
WEXP was never supported as a free product, but was supposed to get out in the field:
In fact, it was on the free download section of the former Telelogic website, with some "free to use/modify at your own risks" license like any other "kitchen" tool.
It was removed around the release of DOORS 6.1 or 7.0 to promote DocExpress, but was still part of some DOORS integration.
And there are still numerous versions of WEXP supported by IBM.
For instance, WEXP is still a component of IRDRMFAO sold by IBM.
(IRDRMFAO stands for IBM Rational DOORS Requirement Management Framework Add-On and was formerly known as TREK)
- Éric
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Re: What is WEXP?
jsarkic - Tue Mar 02 07:55:17 EST 2010
I've used both WEXP and DocExpress and will avoid both now that I have started using the Rational Publishing Engine. Compared to RPE, WEXP and DocExpress both are of high maintenance, and are very, very slow when it comes to generating documents. For example, I am able to generate 300+ documents that average 80 pages each in around 3 hours. Getting RPE is well worth the cost, and is relatively easy to use.
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Re: What is WEXP?
gutaku - Tue Jan 11 09:07:04 EST 2011 jsarkic - Tue Mar 02 07:55:17 EST 2010
I've used both WEXP and DocExpress and will avoid both now that I have started using the Rational Publishing Engine. Compared to RPE, WEXP and DocExpress both are of high maintenance, and are very, very slow when it comes to generating documents. For example, I am able to generate 300+ documents that average 80 pages each in around 3 hours. Getting RPE is well worth the cost, and is relatively easy to use.
I would like to know were can I find WEXP. It's been said that there is an unencrypted version available which works with DOORS v9.xx. Is this true or not?
I appreciate your help.
Thanks
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Re: What is WEXP?
PDU - Wed Jan 12 01:19:44 EST 2011 gutaku - Tue Jan 11 09:07:04 EST 2011
Hi
I would like to know were can I find WEXP. It's been said that there is an unencrypted version available which works with DOORS v9.xx. Is this true or not?
I appreciate your help.
Thanks
I can send to you, write me a e-mail (you can find my address in my profile)
Regards
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Re: What is WEXP?
bmohamed - Wed Oct 29 10:21:34 EDT 2014 PDU - Wed Jan 12 01:19:44 EST 2011
WEXP version is not the same for DOORS V9.0 and DOORS V9.1 and others, because of change of encryption by IBM.
I can send to you, write me a e-mail (you can find my address in my profile)
Regards
PDU,
I came across this thread just now. Do you still have WEXP for DOORS 9.5? I dont see an email address for you. thanks.
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Re: What is WEXP?
jobina - Wed Jan 07 14:14:45 EST 2015 PDU - Wed Jan 12 01:19:44 EST 2011
WEXP version is not the same for DOORS V9.0 and DOORS V9.1 and others, because of change of encryption by IBM.
I can send to you, write me a e-mail (you can find my address in my profile)
Regards
I came across this thread just now. Do you still have WEXP for DOORS 9.x? I dont see an email address for you. thanks.
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Re: What is WEXP?
bungle_77 - Tue Apr 21 05:56:31 EDT 2015 jobina - Wed Jan 07 14:14:45 EST 2015
I came across this thread just now. Do you still have WEXP for DOORS 9.x? I dont see an email address for you. thanks.
Somebody know where i can download wexp for Doors 9.3 and if there is a manual about it?
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