DOORS NG: Contents, Primary Text, Name - what's the difference?
DOORS NG has: Contents, Primary Text, Name.
Sometimes the tool wants to have Primary Text, eg when importing from csv, sometimes Contents is displayed, eg in a view, in addition you can also have a Name for each artifact. What is the realtion between these 3? If I have a Heading artifact type does heading text land in Contents, Primary Text or Name or some combination of all 3. If an artifact is not Heading - the same question.
Thanks.
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In my experience, Contents and Primary Text are the same....whatever is in Primary Text shows up when Contents is displayed. Name is a separate field which shows when viewing artifact links. We have found that the Name and Primary Text fields can be synchronized or un-synchronized. If synchronized, whenever you change the Primary Text (or Contents) fields, the name also changes. You can tell that they are synchronized because the content in the Name field will have < > around it. However, if they are un-synchronized, then any changes you make to Primary contents will NOT be reflected in the name field. If you use artifacts for requirements like we do, this is undesirable, as I want to see the requirement accurately when viewing links. To re-sync the two fields, you have to edit the artifact by opening it up, deleting the content in the Name field and then saving the artifact. It will automatically re-populate the Name field with whatever is in the Primary Content field with the < > around it. Another way to do it is CSV import/export (assuming you are on DNG 6.0.2 or better which supports round trip import/export). Export your artifacts in CSV with the Name and Primary Text columns showing. Clear all the name cells and re-import the CSV , updating the artifacts. viola!
I probably have the reverse problem, but perhaps the same solution.