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Move requirements from R4J to DOORS

Billy Christie

Does anybody know how I can move a spec from R4J to DOORS? I do not have R4J admin rights, and R4J just doesn't do what I need it to do.

I tried R4J export to CSV and it was a total mess. It even puts text from one requirement in a row above the requirement number.

Please don't suggest ReqIf. I have no ReqIf export in R4J and don't have admin rights to install that.

Even if I can get each req exported reliably somehow, I can script in DOORS to rebuild the specification.

I seriously cannot get my job done with R4J.

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Billy Christie

PS. Please don't suggest ReqIf. I don't have ReqIf export on my R4J.

Bernhard Doleschel _Ease Solutions_

Hello @Billy Christie ,

I´m Bernhard from Ease Solutions, the vendor of R4J - Requirements Management for Jira.

We would like to understand your limitations with R4J and help you further, best is you contact us via our friendly service desk team. Which problems do you face and can be solved better by Doors?

Please see also my answer in your other tread Controlling a CSV export.

Best Regards,
Bernhard from Ease Solutions

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Billy Christie

PS. Please don't suggest ReqIf. I don't have ReqIf export on my R4J.

Bernhard Doleschel _Ease Solutions_

Hello @Billy Christie ,

I´m Bernhard from Ease Solutions, the vendor of R4J - Requirements Management for Jira.

We would like to understand your limitations with R4J and help you further, best is you contact us via our friendly service desk team. Which problems do you face and can be solved better by Doors?

Please see also my answer in your other tread Controlling a CSV export.

Best Regards,
Bernhard from Ease Solutions

Billy Christie

No... to be honest... I just want to give up. I've used DOORS for about 20 years, R4J on a previous project for 3... and several other req management tools.

I cannot stand using R4J any longer... it is eating up time I don't have, not fulfilling what I need, and it is preventing me being productive in my job.

André Luiz Florentino

Hi Billy... I'm just wondering if you ever got an definitive answer. I'm about to run a project using R4J that needs to be transferred to DOORS when its finished and I couldn't find an clear answer whether that's possible or not.

Bernhard Doleschel _Ease Solutions_

Hello @André Luiz Florentino ,
you could export data from easeRequirements (formerly R4J) by ReqIF (beta feature). To enable it, please contact our service desk via support.easesolutions.com

Best Regards,

Bernhard from Ease Solutions

Billy Christie

@Andre: No, I never got a clear answer. But, I solved it myself. I exported the R4J to Excel using the JIRA add-in in Excel (additional installation which had to be sourced by my company, approved, installed etc.), imported that to DOORS, then wrote a variety of DOORS DXL scripts to sort out the structure and rebuild the content. There wasn't an easy way to export the folder structure from R4J, so I included the "Requirement Path", then wrote a DOORS script to reconstruct the folder structure in DOORS.

There were other issues to solve, e.g. the handling of tables... R4J treats tables as content of a req, which DOORS can do, but then it loses some of the essential features I needed, so I wrote another script which would construct DOORS tables (one object per cell) from the R4J format as it appears in Excel. (I'm not sure how well that would work with merged cells... but as my original content didn't use those, it wasn't a problem for me.)

Embedded images were another problem.... in theory, I can read the images directly from any source, including a website, directly into DOORS, but I couldn't find a pattern to determine where they were stored in R4J... so I ended up making an XML export, and deriving the image source from that (img src=).

I haven't tried the new ReqIF (beta feature) in R4J as it didn't exist at the time I had these problems and I can't find it in my R4J... I'm guessing it needs another add-in.

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