DXL for automated link creation

SystemAdmin - Tue Apr 26 05:00:50 EDT 2011
I think you are hoping for a miracle here!

Firstly, you need to explain how your requirements are structured in DOORS. Are all of these requirements that need to be linked in the same DOORS module or are they in different DOORS modules? You also must have a solid understanding about how DOORS does linking - have you read the DOORS user manual about linking objects?

It is very difficult to write DXL that creates links based on heading numbers. DOORS creates links based on the Absolute Number assigned to every DOORS module object. To create a link from a source object to a target object using DXL, you need to know the name of the target DOORS module and the Absolute Number of the object in the target module that you want to link with, as well as the DOORS link module that will manage the link.

I recommend that you read the DOORS user manual and learn about the "Link by Attribute" feature of DOORS.

SumitKumarApata - Tue Apr 26 05:17:12 EDT 2011
The two levels of requirements that need to be linked are in two different formal modules. As of now I have only the heading number. But I can export the high level requirement to an spreadsheet and get the mapping of section number to DOORS ID.

Now, if I have that mapping, how to proceed further in automating the link creation? A sample DXL script would be helpful.

SystemAdmin - Tue Apr 26 05:56:00 EDT 2011
OK - now I understand.

But I don't think that you need to use DXL. DOORS has a built in feature called "Link by Attribute". The Module menu path for this feature in DOORS version 9.2 is Link > Advanced > Link By Attribute.

This feature requires you to create a Text type object attribute and then for each object in that module, you add the Absolute Numbers of the objects in the other module that you want to link with. If there is more than one module that you want to link with, you have to create one attribute per module so that DOORS can determine which module you want to link with.

You will have to read up about the "Link by Attribute" feature to fully understand how to use it.

DOORS cannot guess to work out the link mapping from one object to another. Whatever method you choose, you still have to define the object to object absolute number link mapping first.

SumitKumarApata - Wed Apr 27 08:37:25 EDT 2011
I now have the mapping between the low level requirements and the mapped high level requirement DOORS Id in an excel sheet.
Column1 Column2
Requirement Text DOORS Id of High Level Req

With this, I don't want to manually link by attributes. I want links to be created automatically between the requirement that will be uploaded and the DOORS Id of the high level req that are already there.