RTF Documentation Issues

[brucebanner]

Hi All

I am attempting to create an template for rtf documents within EA for our company.

I have read the tutorial regarding the use of templates and master documents and have successfully generated the information I need into the document.  However I am having issues with the margins and embedded image I have placed in the template.

All 3 of the the templates I have created (one for the master, one for requirements and one for additional diagrams) have the same margin lengths as well as the same .bmp image (to adhere to our corporate standards).  However, upon generation, nether the margins nor the image are created as the templates have specified and seem to default to previous margin lengths as well as not generating the .bmp in the header.

Any ideas on why this is occurring?

[WorkerBee]

Hi Bruce,

I recommend using a Word Master Document for implementing corporate design issues like header/footer/images and so on.
Also the levels and numbering of the headings can be configured with a Word Document Template being applied to the Word Master Document.

When generating RTF templates in EA you should just concentrate on filling them with the data and diagrams of your model elements.

You then include the generated rtf as client (? don't know how they are called in english) documents into the word master.

So you just have to make changes in on spot and not in every EA template.

Uncle G.

[AndyJ]

To follow up on Uncle G's comment.

This is what I'm doing now.

1. Generate .rtf template
2. Copy bookmark from within the Project Explorer
3. Insert bookmark (pointing at the generated .rtf file) as a link in Word Doc.

This works well as all the corporate stuff is in the individual Word docs.

The only tricky part of this is the project glossary.

I'm generating the glossary as a separate .rtf and adding it as a link to a file inside the word documents. This is because it's not possible to generate a bookmark for the glossary at the moment.

This is messy to set up so I've created a set of wiki pages explaining the method for our organisation.

Once set up for your documents, the update process is as follows.

1. Generate glossary to .rtf
2. Generate model to .rtf (I use a modified form of the Use Case Template)
3. Open word document, select all (Ctrl-A) and update (F9)

Hopefully that helps...

Andy