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Scot Penrod
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Jun 12 '13, 10:32 a.m.

I've seen information about how to use DOORS to export requirements into a CSV file, but is there a way to use an API to extract requirements in a similar fashion?

The objective would be to use .Net to pull a list of requirements from DOORS and a way to automaticaly add new requirements into DOORS based on a particular event in a .Net web application.

Are there any best practice documentations for ways to go about doing those two things?  Or is there some other article or forum posting to show an example of communication with DOORS using .Net?  (DXL or the C API?)

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Vatsala Ramachandran
(123●1●4) Jun 12 '13, 7:42 a.m.
Hi Scot

Yes, this is very much possible using DXL. You could write your own dxl batch file which can be run silently (without having to open the DOORS GUI). and that batch file can be called from .Net

So, both pushing data in and pulling data out can be achieved using DXL

Please refer to the dxl help for more information on how this can be done

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/doorshlp/v9/topic/com.ibm.doors.configuring.doc/topics/c_dxl.html?resultof=%22%64%78%6c%22%20%22%6d%61%6e%75%61%6c%22%20

Thanks,
Vatsala

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Scot Penrod
Jun 12 '13, 8:53 a.m.
Is there a way to interact directly rather than creating and running bat files on the server that is running DOORS? If bat files are the only option then I'll go down that road, but I just wanted to check first to see if there were any more options with Jazz that would be a more direct approach. Thanks

Vatsala Ramachandran
Jun 12 '13, 11:39 a.m.
If you want to use DOORS then DXL is the only way you can do this and you need batch files for that But if you are referring to DOORS Next Generation (the latest rich client on Jazz), then DXL is not an option you can use there. For that, you may have to perform these operations probably through OSLC. Thanks, Vatsala

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Daniel Moul
FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER (5.0k●13●18) Jun 12 '13, 9:20 a.m.
@spenrod the best place to ask for help with DXL is in one of the DOORS 9 forums; in fact there is one specifically for DXL:

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/forum?id=11111111-0000-0000-0000-000000001527

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