problem with tables in doors while Generating Report in RPE
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You should rather use Module/Object/Table/Row/Object/Object Text to get the output as you are expecting. You may refer to sample template (doorsData.dta in %rpe_home%\source\DOORS\examples) that comes with RPE.
Hi Prashob
I hope you are copy pasting Word tables into the DOORS object text. If this is the case then DOORS does not support RTF tables copy pasted from Word into object text. From the same module, if you do a standard export to Word (File > Export > Microsoft Office > Word), you see the same behavior. Only the text from the copy pasted tables will be exported to Word without any table borders. There are enhancements already submitted in these lines. So this is not really a RPE problem as DOORS itself does not support copy pasting Word tables into Modules. It was earlier mentioned as limitation in DOORS readme file. So to get this right you should use DOORS native tables rather than Word tables and use the method mentioned by Prasad to extract the DOORS table details using RPE.
Best Regards
Abish M Zachariah
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Hi Abish,
I am using Doors 9.5 , I can copy paste tables in to the module and tables will not be converted to text. The tables itself is copied in to the module with out any distortion. My client has done that and its a huge data that cannot be converted into doors native tables with in a day.
And Client wants RPE to generate report for modules in Doors.
Regards,
Prashob K T
Hi Prashob
>> “I am using Doors 9.5 , I can copy paste tables in to the module and tables will not be converted to text.”
This is because DOORS used Microsoft rich edit controls in the object text editor and hence you will see the table borders after copy/pasting it from Word ( same as Word pad)
Since DOORS does not support this, it is not processed correctly and you will lose the table boarders after a standard export to Word from DOORS.
Same is the case with RPE export. DOORS does not expose these Word tables correctly via its API to RPE, for it to process this correctly. Hence you will only get the text in the RPE generated Word output.
This was earlier raised as an enhancement for DOORS which got rejected. Below is the direct link to this enhancement from the online developer works community:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=20334
This was indeed mentioned as DOORS limitation earlier but I cannot find this now. May be you can contact support who will guide you to this limitation. Hope this suffices.
Best Regards
Abish M Zachariah
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Large tables after pasting to doors using paste special you can see it is a single object like a image and it will display half of table. if you double click on object in doors you can can see it selects the entire table as a image and if you double click on it again a word document will open inside doors and inside that you can see your whole table.