Import from Doors into EA with MDG Link

[SysEngineer]

MDG Link provides DOORS-users the import of DOORS® objects (including mapping of DOORS® Attributes to EA).

Is it also possible to import the doors links between the imported objects automatically? If not, is it possible to customize it??

[Monsieur]

My answers are only based on my knowledge of the MDG Doors a while ago but ...

MDG Link provides DOORS-users the import of DOORS® objects (including mapping of DOORS® Attributes to EA).

Is it also possible to import the doors links between the imported objects automatically?

No it does not import linksets (which contain links)

If not, is it possible to customize it??

You can't custom the MDG tech.
You'll have to develop your own tech BUT links are difficult to handle, i suggest you do in 2 parts. import elements. import links by retriving elements by using the tag values (contain doors values if i remember well)

I repeat, my answers can be outdated!

[qwerty]

I did use the DOORS MDG once only for testing. But as it did not match the requirements we had we implemented our own import. Since you can script DOORS as well this was not a too big deal (code pages were tricky, though).

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[M. King]

Yes, the MDG package (at least, the one that I am using, with EA 15.0) preserves the links if you select the checkbox on the "Import" dialogue before importing. It doesn't import the DOORS linksets, but does preserve the connections. If you then drag, say, 2 linked requirements onto a diagram, EA shows the link between them.

I've only done it with a synthetic set of requirements so far, but EA showed the "fulfils" relationships correctly.