Organizing data in projects and folders
Projects and folders are used to organize and structure
the data in the database and can be created anywhere in the database
hierarchy. A project or folder that contains a project, folder, or
module is called the parent project or parent folder.
Projects are special folders that have additional functions associated with them. In Rational® DOORS®, projects are different from folders in the following ways:
- Each project within the database has a unique name. The location of any data in the project is uniquely identified by a path that starts at the project.
- You can see a list of every project in the database in the Project view in the database explorer.
- Projects can be partitioned and archived
- Projects can contain RIF and ReqIF definitions
- Projects can contain change proposal systems.
Naming conventions
Names are case-sensitive. For example, the names Myproject and MyPROJECT are different. Project names must be unique throughout the Rational DOORS database and folder names must be unique within the parent project or folder. All the projects, folders, and modules in the parent must have different names.
The name can contain the following characters:
- Alphanumeric characters (letters of the alphabet and numbers)
- Space characters
- Periods (.)
- Underscores (_)
- Hyphens (-)