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Hi all,

currently we are using the "Related documents" to add screen shots and diagrams to our use cases. If we are generating a word report it would be verry helpful to be able to display a text (or description) near every singe screen shot like "This is the start screen" ore something like that.

So what we need is a new property for the Related documents like "name"  .

 Thank you

Robert

Good suggestion, thanks.  Note that you can already do this with CaseComplete diagrams.  When you click on the diagram in the model browser, or just on the empty background of the diagram, you can add the description in the tab along the bottom.  That description can then be included in the generated report (in fact it is included in the standard use cases Word report template).  It would be good if you could do the same for related documents too.

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Doug
Serlio Software

Hi Doug, thanks for your reply!

Sure I am able to put an image in a diagram and add a text to that diagram.  But this is:

a) somehow cumbersomely and

b) even worse : I cannot update the image file in the folder (if i have a new screen shot for example) and CC will use the latest picture when generating a word report. Instead of I have to update the picture in the diagram by myself.

Hmm. What a pity!

Regards Robert

 

 

 

Understood.  Thanks,

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Doug
Serlio Software

Hi Doug, 

Just looking at related documents myself and I'd like to extend this a little bit more by asking for another property something like Display or Print Order in the grid. I have 3 related documents, a Word Vision document, a set of business process maps in Visio and a conceptual site map also in Visio. I've related these under my overall use case model and put them in the parent package so the business high level stuff comes first before the use cases and the requirements etc

I would like CaseComplete to print them in the order I've just mentioned. However I have no control of how they come out in the Word report - looks like name order rather than an order I'd like to specify. If there's a way of doing this apart from renaming my docs that would be useful - obviously that's my work around for now.

Second point in related documents, if I have a Visio document with multiple pages it would be nice if CaseComplete could print out each Visio page in a word report, currently it looks like only the last page prints ? I'm not sure if you have much control over embedded viso objects at a programmatic level - I've not done it myself. Obviously I can split it to individual Visio docs but it's often useful to have the entire set of process maps together in one. Just something for you and the guys to have a look at for future.

Steve

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...Steve

Hi Steve,

Actually the order that CaseComplete puts them in the Word document is the order they were created, not alphabetical.  I agree that this is something that the user should have control over - I'll add your comments to our feature tracking list.

CaseComplete doesn't have a lot of control over what gets displayed for an embedded document (that I know of).  However, you can manually control which page gets displayed by generating the Word report, then right click on the embedded Visio picutre and choose Visio Object->Open.  This will bring up Visio and you can choose which page you want to display by simply clicking on the appropriate tab along the bottom.  You might also need to choose File/Page Setup, Page Size tab, size to fit contents checkbox, so that the diagram fits nicely into Word.  In this way, you can include multiple diagrams from a single Visio document.  Not a great work around since you would have to do this everytime you generate a report, but thought I would mention it since it's not a well-known feature.

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Doug
Serlio Software