One of the problems with DOORS Classic. is that a user can create a private view and there is no way of knowing this. Even the users that normally run the administration of the database will be unable to see or manage these views. Only the database administrator user who set up the database has access to all views.
This utility is either run from the database DXL interaction window or from the main menu. It loops through all projects in the database and then all items within each project and builds a skip list of modules. It then loops through all items in the skip list – we are not using recursion to search through the database in this method. Because there can be thousands of modules in a database the script displays a progress bar based on the number of modules in the database.
Each module is opened in read only mode, background with standard view. The script runs through all the views in the module ignoring the standard view and any views with inherited access as these cannot be private or custom views. The script then sets view permissions to ‘RMCDA’ for the named group (usually the group responsible for the administration of the database) that is set as a constant in the DXL script.
