Requirements Gateway Beta Available

[Josh_W]

 

The Requirements Gateway beta is available for public use.

Please sign up at ni.com/beta to participate!

Features of the Beta include:

• Support for Windows Vista
• Enhanced LabVIEW type extends coverage specification to block diagrams
• Analysis of LabVIEW project (*.lvproj) and library (*.lvlib) files for large application support
• Increased impact analysis through custom and included marks
• Added types for Microsoft Office 2007 support
• PDF report generation
• ...and more!

[Andrey_Dmitriev]

Congratulations!

One question. Is OpenOffice supported or not? May be workaround? I was unable to get it running with trial version shipped with LabVIEW 8.6.

Sorry, I asking technical question here in beta thread, but there are no special forum for ReqGateway exists.

Andrey.

[Josh_W]

Andrey,

I haven't tested any Requirements Gateway functionality with OpenOffice.  However, reading through the documentation, OpenOffice can write .docx and .xlsx files that are equivalent to the files written by Microsoft Office 2007.  If this is the case, then you should be able to use the WordX and ExcelX types in Requirements Gateway to read these files.

[Andrey_Dmitriev]

Thanks, Josh,

Sure, OpenOffice is compatible with MS Office format. But I mean full integration - OpenOffice Writer or Calc should  be opened directly from Requirements Gateway IDE. Somewhere in RG path to OpenOffice tools should be defined...

Andrey.

[Josh_W]

Andrey,

When you define a custom type in Requirements Gateway, you have the option to define the editor to open your file with.  I haven't tested it with Calc, but if you choose the "Text" editor, and then define Writer as the default program to use for ".txt" files, I believe that it should open the file.

The problem is that navigation is not simply opening the file, Requirements Gateway will navigate to the place in the file where the requirement or coverage or section exists if you double click on one of those items.  However, it does this through the program's API (Word or Excel for example) which is not going to be equivalent to the OpenOffice API.  In this way, we can't simply drop OpenOffice in for Microsoft's product and get it to work.  The method I described above should allow you to at least open your document.