Imported elements are not "autonamed"

[Wopke]

Hi,

I have set up EA to use auto name counters for requirements and checked the Active box. When I create a new requirement in EA, it is autonamed. However, when I import requirements, they are not autonumbered. Is there some way of accomplishing this?

Cheers,

Wopke

[Paul Lotz]

From what source are you importing the requirements?

[Wopke]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your reply. I am importing from a CSV-file.

Regards,

Wopke

[Paul Lotz]

OK, well, I have only imported requirements from DOORS.  In that case, DOORS assigns a unique ID to each requirement, and I map that to an alias field in EA.

I see ("Requirements Management with Enterprise Architect" paper) that when one imports requirements from a CSV file EA can preserve existing requirements IDs in the source document and hence EA does not normally need to autonumber the requirements.  (There could be a way to change this.)

I'm not sure this helps at all or even if it's correct in your case, but it might help to think that we want to preserve the IDs in the source file, which in these cases is outside EA.

Paul