The management of modules, copying of views and attributes are all essential tasks for a database administrator and yet there is no in built functionality in DOORS Classic that lets you do these simple tasks.
This utility brings together all administration type functions. It works both at the project level – allowing you to manipulate modules – and at the module level which provides access to attributes and views.
Project Level:
The utility is opened via the DOORS main menu. It automatically determines the current project folder based on what is open and/or selected but the user can navigate to any other folder.
It then lists the module names within the project. Selecting a row will display the description and the prefix. The attributes or views in the selected module are also automatically listed. There is a further filter for attributes into normal, DXL or Module attributes.
Double click on the row and the module is opened but you don’t have to open the module in order to work on it. All operations take place in Read only mode unless a save is required in which case the utility takes care of this, checking for locks etc.
The box at the top displays a running display of the success or failure of any operation.
There are a number of operations that the user can perform such as loading up a standard set of attributes from an XML file which is great for pre-populating a module.
The user can also delete attributes or views for a selection of one or more modules at the same time which is extremely useful for making changes to all modules across a project.
The Project Report button produces an Excel report of the views and attributes for all modules in the project.
Module Level:
The same utility also works at the module level where the user has access to shareable edit, and can manipulate attributes and views. For example, delete one or more attributes, convert all ticked DXL attributes for the current module into text or delete one or more views.
Attributes can be copied to other modules (with the relevant checks that they do not already exist in the target module) but perhaps the most useful is the copy view function where a selected view can be copied to one or more modules. This functionality is not easily performed in DOORS Classic.
There is also a button to reset all private views in a selected module into global access views.
