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Topic Title: Conversion of RTM to DOORS
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Created On: 10-Aug-2005 18:34
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 10-Aug-2005 18:34
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Edward Dahlke

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Does anyone have any information (white papers, tutorials, etc.) on converting/importing older RTM files to DOORS, and possibly maintaining the original RTM links?? (one tactic is to export to Word, then import to DOORS, but this does not maintain the original links). Thank you.
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 19-Sep-2005 15:09
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Andrew Jarvis

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Initial thoughts, subject to change.

I think the only way would be a CSV output of each of the Requirements classes based on an RTM script, you could include the Requirement IDs/PUID/Object IDs of the objects at both ends of the relationship as part of the script. So you ineffect export all of the desired attributes and the object ID of the objects they link to.

You could then import the each of the csv files into a new DOORS Module and use Foreign Key linking to restore the links.

As well as the links however, the ancestry of each object will need to be considered, either you only export the current objects from RTM to the CSV file, which would look cleaner, but you lose the iterations undertaken to produce the requirement or you take all objects including non-current, this would give you all historic data but would be confusing. I guess you coul do two CSVs for each class, one with all objects, one with current objects only, you could link where the PUIDs are the same between the two classes. You would then have a historic module and and current object module with links from current to previous iterations...

Edited: 19-Sep-2005 at 15:17 by Andrew Jarvis
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 20-Sep-2005 19:33
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Edward Dahlke

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Andrew,
Thank you for your reply. Let me study this approach and see if I can make it work. I would like to get back with you after I do some experimenting..
Regards,
Ed Dahlke

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 17-Aug-2006 21:28
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Sharon Bryant

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We are currently looking into migrating an RTM database to DOORs.

Can anyone give me any advice?

We're currently struggling with how to pull the links in without having to recreate all the linkages once the data is transferred.

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 31-Aug-2006 23:08
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Mary Schweizer

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At one point we were looking into creating a bridge between RTM and DOORS (so we wouldn't have to use RTM). We ended up not doing it, but I discovered that Warren Smith of Execuspec could do it for us. The web site is http://www.execuspec.com/ and his email is warren@execuspec.com . Warren was an excellent application engineer for DOORS for a year or two, and then became an application engineer for RTM, so he knows the ins and outs of both tools well. Now he is running his own company - Execuspec.

Mary Schweizer

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Mary Schweizer
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