When creating a traceability view in DNG it does not seem to be possible to include the project name for the traced artifact. This would be very useful as you may be interested in identifying which artifacts belong to which project when viewing a traceability column.

A workaround I thought of would be to create an artifact attribute called 'Project name' for example with a default value equal to the name of the project.

Then all artifacts can have their Project queried in traceability columns.

The only problem is that it does not work. If you create an attribute with a default value then the default value is only applied to artifacts created after the attribute was created. Existing artifacts will have the attribute defined but the value will be blank.

This is different to the way DOORS Classic used to work, Attribute default values would apply to all objects unless a specific value is set for that object. DOORS Classic also allowed Module (with path including Project name optionally) to be in the traceability report.

Is there any other workaround anybody knows of to allow an artifact's project (and/or module) to be displayed in a traceability column to give context to the results?

Even if there were a way to manually set the value of the new artifact attribute 'Project Name' to be equal to 'Project01' for example for all pre-existing artifacts (or all artifacts of a given type) in the project that would even be a usable solution.