How to cleanup thousands of "bad" Primary Text hyperlinks in DOORS Next?
What is an efficient proces for deleting thousands of erroneous textual content links in DOORS Next. Referring to the sample scenario below:
a. Is removal of hyperlinks to B and C an acceptable process for cleanup of "bad" links in Primary Text?
b. Are orphaned textual content links created when artifact A text is completely overwritten?
Sample Scenario:
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Create three artifacts: Artifact A (requirement), B (term) and C (term)
- Edit artifact A by selecting some text and creating textual content links to artifacts B and C (i.e., textual links to terms B and C are created in A)
- Save artifact A
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Update/overwrite artifact A with text that no longer references B and C (i.e., textual content links to terms B and C are overwritten in A). After update, no textual content links should exist in A.
- Save artifact A
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No textual content links apply to artifact A
Accepted answer
If you have a large number of existing textual links (links from words or phrases within the Primary Text of many artifacts) and you want to remove them then you should be able to do this using CSV export/import.
Export the Primary Text of all the relevant artifacts to a CSV file and then import the CSV file again using the ID column to match the artifacts. The original rich text with links will then be overwritten with plain text and the links will be removed.
You will also lose other richtext mark-up so if you want to avoid this you could export to XLSX. then in the XLSX select the PT column and remove hyperlinks and then re-import the XLSX. Then you should lose the textual links but not the rest of the richtext mark-up.