Generating Test Plan document from RQM including Table of Tables using RPE
Hi all,
Inside RQM rich text editor there is an option to add a table. One of the advanced table properties is Caption.
When using this option the caption is placed on top of the table.
Once generating it using RPE the caption is placed at the bottom of the table in the following format:
<#> <caption-name>
So, In case there are 2 tables with captions: Caption1, Caption2
the generated word document will have: '1 Caption1' near table 1 and '2 Caption2' near table 2.
My problem is that I'm also adding Table of Tables in RPE which is looking for the following format:
Table <#> <caption-name>
For the reason that RQM does not add the word 'Table' before the caption #, I get an empty Table of Tables.
I did a test and tried to manually add 'Table' before # on top of the generated word document and then it appeared in the Table of Tables.
Does anyone know how to add the 'Table' prefix in RQM\RPE? Is that a defect?
Thanks,
Amit.
3 answers
If you want to append "Table" prefix, you can use Script Expression in RPE along with a JavaScript function.
But this is not required as even without the text "Table" in table caption, the table of tables looks good.
But this is not required as even without the text "Table" in table caption, the table of tables looks good.
Hey Amit,
as Prasad mentioned you can create Tables of Tables in Word that do not require the Table or any specific label to be present in the caption, but instead they rely on the paragraph style. See the attached tableCaptionlessTOTExample.doc and examine the field code use for the TOT. I think Prasad's example was using the same technique, but Prasad please correct me if I'm wrong.
The same behavior can be replicated in RPE. See the attached testTableCaption template and the Word output produced by RPE from it ( with fields updated in Word). So for the problem at hand you could try using a TOT ( Table of Table) field that is based on paragraph style instead of label. I do not have an RQM instance at hand to test so I cannot guarantee 100% you won't need some additional changes in the template.
All the files mentioned above are available here: tableCaptionWithoutLabel.zip
Regards,
Dragos
as Prasad mentioned you can create Tables of Tables in Word that do not require the Table or any specific label to be present in the caption, but instead they rely on the paragraph style. See the attached tableCaptionlessTOTExample.doc and examine the field code use for the TOT. I think Prasad's example was using the same technique, but Prasad please correct me if I'm wrong.
The same behavior can be replicated in RPE. See the attached testTableCaption template and the Word output produced by RPE from it ( with fields updated in Word). So for the problem at hand you could try using a TOT ( Table of Table) field that is based on paragraph style instead of label. I do not have an RQM instance at hand to test so I cannot guarantee 100% you won't need some additional changes in the template.
All the files mentioned above are available here: tableCaptionWithoutLabel.zip
Regards,
Dragos
Which version of Word are you using? I see the issue when Word 2007 is used. With Word 2003 and 2010, I see table of tables coming correctly.
The PDF output looks good.
The PDF output looks good.
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