Layout DXL for Object History

Okay I searched through these forums and couldnt find anything.

I'm a newbie and was wondering if someone has already create a layout DXL script that I can drop into a column?

I'm essentially wanting to show object history in the column. Possibly also across baselines and from a particular date.

Any ideas?

Thanks
JacKaL424 - Wed May 26 15:11:21 EDT 2010

Re: Layout DXL for Object History
mcnairk - Wed May 26 15:36:47 EDT 2010

Re: Layout DXL for Object History
mcnairk - Wed May 26 15:37:46 EDT 2010

Re: Layout DXL for Object History
mcnairk - Wed May 26 15:38:27 EDT 2010

Re: Layout DXL for Object History
mcnairk - Wed May 26 15:38:59 EDT 2010

Re: Layout DXL for Object History
mcnairk - Thu May 27 09:08:53 EDT 2010

Re: Layout DXL for Object History
JacKaL424 - Thu May 27 09:44:16 EDT 2010

Re: Layout DXL for Object History
Mathias Mamsch - Thu May 27 09:50:56 EDT 2010

Re: Layout DXL for Object History
mcnairk - Thu May 27 14:58:20 EDT 2010

Re: Layout DXL for Object History
mcnairk - Thu May 27 15:07:48 EDT 2010

Re: Layout DXL for Object History
JayashreeRaddi - Wed Apr 06 03:50:36 EDT 2011

Re: Layout DXL for Object History
llandale - Wed Apr 06 13:29:05 EDT 2011

You could go with the History approach, "Is there History for Object Heading", but you'd need to save some date threshold such that History before that date (the previous import date) is ignored.

I'd be tempted to make two text attributes "Imported Text" and "Imported Heading" which are updated right BEFORE you import again. Then you can have some attr-DXL that simply compares "Object Text" with "Imported Text" and "Object Heading" with "Imported Heading", indicating whether there is any difference.

// Run this before the next import
for obj in entire current Module do
{  obj."Imported Text"    = obj."Object Text"  // Raw text is best
   obj."Imported Heading" = obj."Object Heading"
}

//  string Attr DXL looks something like:
if (obj."Imported Text" ""    != obj."Object Text" "" or
    obj."Imported Heading" "" != obj."Object Heading" "") //
then obj.attrDXLName = "Updated last Import"
else obj.attrDXLName = "unchanged last Import"

• Louie

Re: Layout DXL for Object History
bmohamed - Mon Oct 27 12:08:02 EDT 2014

Mathias, I used your makehistorycolumn.dxl and that dialogue generated this layout DXL which I'm using going forward.

I created this thread:  https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=9460b476-e93c-416d-999a-04d14a236bb8#45ad31a2-fe80-407d-b2c9-8476613b84e3

To summarize it: 

I also notice something odd in DOORS(v9.5).  When I first entered new object text(i used the MS Word export to DOORS addin) it lists two history records.  The first one is expected showing 'from' being blank and 'to' being the object text i wanted.  The second entry shows 'from' and 'to' being the same text with no redlines.  Just looks like theres a font/alignment change if that and the date/timestamp for both is exact.y the same.  How can I set a condition so the bogus duplicate date/timestamp doesnt show up?

Is there a way If I select multiple attributes the output is grouped/sorted by date rather than grouped by attribute?  Thanks.

Thanks for the help.

//int dateNumber = 1385269200; Date afterDate = dateOf dateNumber //this int dateNumber was created when I selected 24nov2013 as the date.

Date afterDate = "11/24/2013"//used this hardcoded date rather than the date number.  There will be no DOORS history prior to this date.
//every time the date is pasted to DOORS the quotes need to be retyped.

void defaultDescribeEvent(Object o, string sAttribute, History h, Buffer b)
{
                Buffer v = create()
                Buffer old = create(); old = h.plainOldValue;
                Buffer new = create(); new = h.plainNewValue;

                diff (v, old,new, "\\cf1\\strike ", "\\cf3\\ul ")

//string sRequestedBy = probeRichAttr_(obj, "Requested By", false)

                b += "{\\b On }"
                Date d = h.date
                b += d ""
                b += " {\\b "
                b += h.author ""//change this to sRequestedBy…its not bolding the text though
                b += "} "
                // object modification has old and new values
                b += " modified {\\b "
                b += h.attrName "} "
                b += " \\par "
                b += v
                b += " \\par "

                delete old
                delete new
                delete v
}
string getHistoryForAttributes(Object o, string sAtt, void describeEvent(Object, string, History, Buffer))
{
                History h = null
                HistoryType ht = null
                Buffer b = create()
                for h in o do
                {
                                if(h.readlocked)
                                                continue
                                Date x = h.date

                                if (x < afterDate) continue
                                ht = h.type
                                if (ht == modifyObject)
                                {
                                               string sAttribute = h.attrName
                                               if (sAtt == sAttribute)
                                               describeEvent(o, sAttribute, h, b)
                                }
                }
                string sHistory = stringOf(b)
                delete b
                return sHistory
}
//I added two lines and changed the attribute names and the code pulled those attributes too
displayRichWithColour getHistoryForAttributes(obj, "Object Text", defaultDescribeEvent)
//displayRichWithColour getHistoryForAttributes(obj, "VerificationSectionText", defaultDescribeEvent)
//displayRichWithColour getHistoryForAttributes(obj, "AdminComments", defaultDescribeEvent)

Re: Layout DXL for Object History
bmohamed - Mon Nov 03 09:26:59 EST 2014

Where is the attribute comparison line(s) that need to be commented out?  I tried some things and it didnt work.  thanks.

Re: Layout DXL for Object History
Mathias Mamsch - Mon Nov 03 11:18:59 EST 2014

This was referring to the original source code part:

...
        if (ht == modifyObject)
                {
                        string sAttribute = h.attrName
                        if (sAtt == sAttribute)
                                describeEvent(o, sAttribute, h, b)
                }
...

which would only show the history for certain attributes ... To show history for all attributes you can obviously comment out the if statement ...

Regards, Mathias

Re: Layout DXL for Object History
bmohamed - Mon Nov 03 12:58:44 EST 2014

...
        if (ht == modifyObject)
                {
                        string sAttribute = h.attrName
                        if (sAtt == sAttribute)
                                describeEvent(o, sAttribute, h, b)
                }
...

I commented out line 5 above and that was it.  I could've sworn i did that before without any luck...  guess not...  thanks.