Exported document and bullet numbering

[tomp]

Hi

Sorry if something similar has been posted before but I searched and can't seem to find anything.

I have exported an rtf report of a use case package using the basic template. Inside it are various use case scenarios created using linked rtf documents and written using EA's rtf editor functionality. These all have numbered steps for each flow within the Use Case, which when viewed within EA are numbered 1-X for each flow.

In the exported report these numbers sequentially increase in index but seemingly randomly re-starting from time to time.

I have tried re-assigning the step numbers in the use cases but this has no obvious effect.

Is this a bug or is there a way of enforcing the numbering to restart at each new heading?

Cheers
Tom

[tomp]

Bump - Can anyone help??

[jbettencourt]

I've had the same problem.  I have a linked document for each use case and the linked document was created from a linked document template within EA.

The linked document template, and thus the linked documents created from it, employ custom styles for formatting.

Each style is set to use list numbering. They use the same "List" at different levels (1, 2, 3, etc.). For example, after selecting Paragraph -> List Numbering, I choose a list like, "List: MyList, Override#26" and a level like, "1".

The "List Item", as defined from "Edit->List and Overrides->Create List Item", is set to, "Restart at section break" but the numbering does not restart.

For example, I generate a report with 10 use cases, each with their own linked document.  The linked documents all use the same template and so the same list item, override, etc. as described above. The first linked document in the generated report has the correct numbering but then the content in the rest of the linked documents is continuous from the first linked document like so:

[Start Report]
[SECTION BREAK]
[Use Case 1]
[Start Linked Document for Use Case 1]
1. [First numbered item]
2. [Second numbered item]
...
10. [Tenth numbered item]
[End Linked Document for Use Case 1]
[End Use Case 1]
[SECTION BREAK]
[Start Use Case 2]
[Start Linked Document for Use Case 2]
11. [First numbered item]
12. [Second numbered item]
...
20. [Tenth numbered item]
[End Linked Document for Use Case 2]
[End Use Case 2]
....
[End Report]

Does anyone know how to fix this or if it is a bug?

Thanks,
Josh

[gpc]

see latest update to: http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=general;action=display;num=1194883000
it may help  

[jbettencourt]

Thanks for the posts gpc!

Though, I'm still not sure what to do.  I've used the style and numbering and overrides for the linked documents.   The problem is, that when a report is run with several elements in it and each of those has a linked document that was based on the same template, the numbering DOES NOT start over at the start of each linked document.  

I need a way to run the overall report (with many elements each with their own linked document) and have each successive linked document NOT continue numbering from the previous linked document.

My guess is that since they were all created with the same template they all have the same list/item/overrides defined and so they all look like one continuous list when in sequence.

I thought that marking the List Item with, "Restart at section break" would force each of the linked documents' lists to get their own numbering but that isn't happening.

[gpc]

Hi Josh,

Sounds a reasonable theory . I don't really have a handle on what you're doing and haven't played with linked documents, but maybe you could change the indentation level?
Assuming you have some sort of master document pulling in the generated documents, will something like this work...?

1. <heading derived from name of linked doc #1>
1.1 uc1-item 1
...
1.10 uc1-item 10
2. <heading derived from name of linked doc #2>
2.1 uc2-item 1
...
2.10 uc2-item 10
...

where 1, 2, etc. are contained in the master doc and 1.1, 1.2,..., etc. are pulled in from the various linked docs.