Report Builder: Pulling Heading text and Heading Number?
I have in DOORS a module that has objects of artifact type "Heading"(in RDNG's System). So, my RDNG module is structured correctly:
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Carlos,
My environment is DNG 6.0.5, no Global Configuration. We are using JRS for reports, but I am needing to learn how to do stuff using RPE. That's why I like your question and the answers you receive -- like the one just in from Kevin Murphy -- because that helps me better understand about JRS too.
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For DNG, JRS does not contain information about module structure, so you're not going to get numbered headings. It's really what RPE is for.
You could create a custom attribute for headings and manually fill out the numbers (or have an automated script/widget do it), but who knows, JRS may one day have module structure in it.
Unfortunately, I don't think module structure with heading numbers and the like will be in JRS any time soon. For one, you could only get to it from a Module->Requirement relationship (because what if a requirement is used in two different modules with two different heading numbers?), and the current schema really doesn't support that.
Also, JRS is really for tables and graphs, RPE is for Word documents and Excel files...
I am not IBM, but I do a LOT of RPE and JRS work. Comments
Carlos Gonsalez
commented Sep 07 '18, 9:45 a.m.
Kevin, Thanks for your informative reply. It validated what I had suspected. And allows me to refocus on other tasks. Carlos
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Hello Carlos,
Your question is one that I am very interested in the answer from the Forum as I don' t yet know how to do that.
RPE can do it.
Regards,
Mike
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Michael,
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Thanks on that, Carlos. I subscribed to your question which means I will be emailed any Forum updates to your question.
Sorry about the acronym. Yes, you are correct. Rational Publishing Engine. I've been trying to learn it and was able to create a very simple template (.dta) that gets each artifact id and its text in a module. You can create conditions. For example, if the artifact type is a certain type. It is very easy to drag and drop different elements like containers, paragraphs, text. There is a javascript element that can be dragged-and-dropped for writing some code too.
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Thanks on the feedback.
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Michael,
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Kevin,
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The latest versions of RPE allow direct export to Excel. You can use JRS to export to Excel and that's fine. However, if you want DNG module schema information in Excel, then you must use RPE or do a direct export from a DNG module to XLSX/CSV.
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Alernative Solution on Exporting Paragraph/Section verbiage and its numerics
Yet, there is an alternative "no cost" method (Outside of the Report Builder) that allows the exporting of a Heading's Numeric and its Verbiage: Within the Module, create a View that contains the "Section" column Displayed. Within the Module, use the feature "Generate a Report for this View" (accessible via the Triple Bar icon). ~Enjoy~ Carlos G |
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