Filters let you control the data that is displayed in a
module by including or excluding objects. You can define filters based
on attributes, links, objects, and columns.
About this task
You can set up simple filters, where you use a single
filter condition. You can filter on:
- The contents of every attribute of type Text or String.
- The Object Heading number.
- The contents of any column, whether it is a traceability column
or any other custom column created by DXL.
- The value of a single attribute of any type.
- The basis of whether the object has links.
- The basis of whether the object has external links.
Note: To filter
on external links, you must be using a Rational® DOORS® 9.4
or later database server, and the server must be configured to exclude Rational DOORS 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, and 9.3 clients. To exclude
these clients, set the minimum client version on the Login
Policy tab of the database properties to 9.4.
- The basis of whether the object is either the current object or
a leaf object.
An object is a leaf object if it does not have any
children.
You can combine simple filters to create complex filters.
You can also specify filter options that control what is displayed.
For example, you can control whether only the objects that match your
filter are displayed, or whether their ancestors or descendants are
displayed too.
Procedure
- In the module window, click .
- Use the Attributes, Links, External
Links, Objects, or Columns tabs
to define the simple filter that you want to apply to the module.
To apply the filter, click Apply.
- To create an advanced filter, define a simple filter condition,
click Advanced, and then click Add. The filter condition is added to the Rules list.
- Combine the filter rules in the Rules pane.
Selecting two or more, and then click either And, Or or Not to
combine them.
- When you have defined your filter, select it and click Apply.
Information about how the filter has affected the objects in the module
is displayed in Statistics. To return to the
module, click OK or Close.
What to do next
To filter the module explorer select .
Objects that are excluded from the filter are disabled in the module
explorer.
Select to turn the filter on and off. This option shows the
results of the last filter. It does not reapply the filter.
For
example, you filter a module to show only the objects that have a
high priority. Object 13 has a high priority, so it is displayed on
your screen. You turn filtering off, and then edit object 13 and change
its priority to medium. When you turn the filter back on, you still
see object 13 because it matched the filter when you first applied
the filter.
To filter the data using the current values, you
must reapply the filter. To reapply the filter, use on the Tools menu.