Displaying the properties of a descriptive module, and changing access

You can create a descriptive module using DXL, display its properties, and change the access rights.

Before you begin

To change the access rights for a descriptive module, you must have admin access to the module.

In the database explorer, make sure that descriptive modules are being shown. If necessary, click View > Show Descriptive Modules.

About this task

When you create a descriptive module, you specify the file containing the data that you want to import. When you import the file, Rational® DOORS® imports it using the current active code page, for example Latin-1, unless it finds a Unicode Byte Order Marker (BOM) at the start of the file. If the file contains a BOM, the encoding is inferred from the marker.

You cannot edit the contents of a descriptive module but you can extract (copy) sections of its text to formal modules. The extraction process automatically creates links between the original text in the descriptive module and the copy in the formal module.

For example, you have a mail message that contains some requirements that you want to import into Rational DOORS. So you import the mail message into a descriptive module.

Then you mark up the text in the descriptive module that you want to extract. Each marked up requirement becomes an object in the descriptive module.

Finally, you extract the marked up objects. Rational DOORS automatically creates a link between each marked up object in the descriptive module and the copy of it in the formal module.

You cannot edit the text in the descriptive module, but you can edit the copy of the text in the formal module. You still have your descriptive module, with the original text, and links between the two modules.

Procedure

  1. In the module window, click File > Module Properties.
  2. To see the module properties, select the General tab.
  3. To change the access rights, select the Access tab.
Related concepts:
Descriptive modules
Access rights for descriptive modules
Related tasks:
Marking up a descriptive module
Extracting marked up objects

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