Is there a User Manual or User Guide for Rational Doors Next Generation
Looking for Rational DNG manuals. Specifically looking for documentation on "Link type" feature. There are many options given like "Link To", Embeds, Associated etc. Would like information on when one type is preferred over the other.
Also would like more information on export (csv/excel)/imports. If an artifact is linked, a URL is part of a link ("Link To or Embeds) information when exporting that artifact, would like to find out if there is a way not to associate a URL when Link To is used. We are using DNG 6.0.4.
Thanks
Accepted answer
This is the main entry for the DNG 6.0.4 documentation in the Knowledge Center.
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSJJ9R_6.0.4/com.ibm.rational.rrm.help.doc/topics/c_rm_intro.html
Here the specific entry in the Knowledge Center on link types
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSJJ9R_6.0.4/com.ibm.rational.rrm.help.doc/topics/r_linktypes.html
And I am not sure if I understand your last question. In the export you don't want the URL to appear for a Link To type of link?
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More details related to my earlier post: We are trying to migrate our requirements from ReqPro (I can hear you say...how come this late:) ) to DNG. Project consists of a lot of requirements with two Artifact types. Let us call them A and B. Each A links to one or more of Type B. 17K requirements of A links to 7K of type B. It could as simple as one of A links to just one of B, but generally each A links to about 15 type B. There are a few As that links to 400 - 500 Bs. So far our research indicates that we cannot import requirements from ReqPro to DNG preserving the links. May be possible to just import all of A, but the traces to B will not import. Here is our plan - Import all type Bs initially into DNG via csv export/import process. Create one requirement of type A in DNG. After this Create one link (using Link To)from A in DNG to each type B artifact. This would give us the URL for each type B "Link To"s . Repeat this step for all of the 7K of type B. Take a csv extract of this from DNG. That will have the URL for each of the 7K "Link To"s for B. Take a csv extract of all of the requirements from ReqPro (containing all of type A linked to type B ) and use a program to change the link information that came out of ReqPro with the URL information mapping . This updated file would be used to import all of the ReqPro data into DNG.
As you can see the maximum time would be spent in manually creating the "Link To" for each type B in DNG. If we can find a way to not associate a URL for Link To, then we save all that time. And we do not see a need for URL info it in our project. This is what I was trying to determine. If we must associate a URL, is there a way to obtain the URL without having to establish a "test" link?
Based on a quick reading of the links you provided, it appears there is a way to create custom Links, not sure if we could do them without associating a URL. We do not have administrator privileges, so have not checked that possibility yet. All we need is link between two artifact types within the same CLM, no need for linking to external projects.
Any new ideas/insights you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
