Creating editable sections in modules
In IBM® Engineering Requirements
Management DOORS®
(DOORS),
to allow several users to edit different sections of a module at the same time, divide the module
into editable sections. Instead of opening the module in exclusive edit mode, which locks the whole
module, a user can open the module in shareable edit mode and lock the section that they want to
work on. Other users can open the module in shareable edit mode and lock other sections of the
module.
About this task
There are two ways of setting up editable sections:
- Divide a module into editable sections based on its current object section levels. For example, you can make an editable section for each level 1 section. Or you can make an editable section for each level 2 section.
- Create custom editable sections by stopping objects from inheriting
their access rights. An editable section is created for each object
that does not inherit its access, and its ancestors. The following
illustration shows how custom editable sections work. In this picture, two objects, A and D, do not inherit access rights from their parents, so there are two editable sections:
- The objects that inherit their access rights from A (B, C, E, and H) are colored orange. Along with object A, they make up one editable section.
- The objects that inherit their access rights from D (F and G) are colored blue. Along with object D, they make up another editable section.