Hi,
we work with DOORS via CITRIX. This makes it impossible to navigate directly to DOORS using URLs from the normal desktop environment.
It would help if we had at least a DOORS utility into which one could paste a DOORS URL, and the script would navigate to the respective item (module or object).
I tried to use the DXL Help for URLs but I am too inexperienced to write such a script.
Does anyone know whether such a script exists somewhere?
Thanks!
peter
SystemAdmin - Wed Jul 21 10:46:57 EDT 2010 |
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Re: Script to help with navigation using URL (goto URL)
llandale - Wed Jul 21 13:27:57 EDT 2010
If you have such a DOORS utility it would be running on Citrix which has access to DOORS, in which case you would not need a DOORS utility.
Its best to visualize your Citrix environment 'in a window' rather than 'seamlessly'. In fact, you can configure Citrix that way. A Citrix window comes up and inside you see your running Citrix applications, DOORS in this case.
In any case, you can invoke a Citrix Windows Explorer by running this in the DXL window:
system("explorer.exe")
you can then see your Citrix 'desktop' folder (in the windows explorer), and can put your URLs there, so when you double-click on them it can find DOORS and go.
Usually, the Citrix Admins allow your Citrix to map to your local drives. Our folks are nice and installed the Citrix applications on the Citrix 'X:' drive, and map the Citrix 'A', 'B', 'C', and 'D' drives back to the client equivalent. If so, you can use your Citrix Windows Explorer to find the URLs on the 'C:' drive, and when you double click it will find DOORS and go to the module in question. (Another Citrix we use map the Citrix 'V' drive to the local 'C' drive, and its a little confusing.)
I suppose it might be possible to configure your URLs such that they know to move into your Citrix environment and THEN try to find DOORS; but if that's possible it will require someone a lot cleverer than me.
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Re: Script to help with navigation using URL (goto URL)
SystemAdmin - Thu Jul 22 02:48:13 EDT 2010 llandale - Wed Jul 21 13:27:57 EDT 2010
If you have such a DOORS utility it would be running on Citrix which has access to DOORS, in which case you would not need a DOORS utility.
Its best to visualize your Citrix environment 'in a window' rather than 'seamlessly'. In fact, you can configure Citrix that way. A Citrix window comes up and inside you see your running Citrix applications, DOORS in this case.
In any case, you can invoke a Citrix Windows Explorer by running this in the DXL window:
system("explorer.exe")
you can then see your Citrix 'desktop' folder (in the windows explorer), and can put your URLs there, so when you double-click on them it can find DOORS and go.
Usually, the Citrix Admins allow your Citrix to map to your local drives. Our folks are nice and installed the Citrix applications on the Citrix 'X:' drive, and map the Citrix 'A', 'B', 'C', and 'D' drives back to the client equivalent. If so, you can use your Citrix Windows Explorer to find the URLs on the 'C:' drive, and when you double click it will find DOORS and go to the module in question. (Another Citrix we use map the Citrix 'V' drive to the local 'C' drive, and its a little confusing.)
I suppose it might be possible to configure your URLs such that they know to move into your Citrix environment and THEN try to find DOORS; but if that's possible it will require someone a lot cleverer than me.
The solution (hopefully.. I cannot try it out right now..) is: runnning Internet Explorer under Citrix so that people can copy-paste a URL sent to them outside of Citrix into the Citrix Iexplore URL line.
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Re: Script to help with navigation using URL (goto URL)
Reik_Schroeder - Thu Jul 22 02:55:48 EDT 2010
Hi Paul,
afaik you can place the URL directly into the "Location" field in Doors main window and press enter.
Since Doors 8 it should be able to open the item which is addressed by the URL.
Regards
Reik
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