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Created On: 6-Aug-2007 15:31
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 6-Aug-2007 15:31
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Sjors de Leeuw

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Does anybody have experience with drawing simple tables in DOORS objects? (DOORS 8.1)
Currently, I know three options:
1. Use DOORS tables - I don't want that, it's not suitable for me (see background of the question below).
2. Copy a Word table to Object Text (not as OLE). However, words don't wrap when table cell border is reached, and pressing "Enter" at end of cell adds a new row to the table --> not suitable for me;
3. Copy a Word table as OLE object in the DOORS object. I created a "template" table (three columns, two rows), and it turns out to be that each OLE object takes between 55 and 250 KBytes. Quite huge for an empty and small table. Since I need a couple of hunderds of objects with tables, the OLE solution is also not suitable.

Any suggestions?

Thanks, greets
Sjors

Background of the question:
I created a formal module for entering test cases (linked to system requirements). I want to have one object per test case (so I can use the test tracking toolkit of DOORS).
Each test case contains description, preconditions, configuration and test steps. The test steps describe the actual test itself. I would like to enter the test steps in a simple table, to keep the data readable (columns for test step number, input and result).
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 6-Aug-2007 16:24
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Kevin Murphy

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Sjors,

I recommend that you don't use tables if those 3 options don't work.

There is an option 4...using WEXP you can bypass the need for tables for publishing.

Kev

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 7-Aug-2007 00:18
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Louie Landale

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I call that #2 option 'RTF' tables since they resemble simple tables in the DOORS object and are composed of RTF tags. When you want to edit such a table you copy it, paste it into Word or WordPad, edit it there, then copy and paste it back.

- Louie
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 7-Aug-2007 08:05
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Sjors de Leeuw

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Ok guys, thank you for the answers. @Kevin: the reason to have a table is to make live easier for the test case engineers: when having 10 or 15 test steps, you require 20 or 30 attributes (for input and result), which is quite hard / annoying to enter in the default user interface of DOORS. One solution to this is developing a GUI with DXL for easy input. I use WEXP for publishing, and can export to a table-like format then indeed. @Louie, I want to get rid of external editors preferably, but still, the solution should be considered... unfortunately... Sjors
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 7-Aug-2007 18:50
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Krishna Kandala

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Is WEXP a shareware (or freeware) program? Where can I get it ? I am using DocExpress sometimes and mostly direct export to Word from the module.
Thanks in advance.  -- Krishna
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