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    Patrick Radomski
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    I’m currently reporting on Use cases and creating a cross reference report with all of the User interfaces linked to it.

    Under the user interfaces are GUI Elements, and I have requirements linked to those which I would like to cross reference too – but it appears that we can only go ‘one level deep’ with cross referencing.

    Any chance of allowing cross references within cross references? (or ‘Cross-reference-ception’ as I like to call it).

    #6308
    eadocX Support
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    Wow! This is tricky one.
    Can’t see any possibility of implementing this. The reason is that eaDocX only starts to create cross-reference reports only once the ‘main’ document sections are generated. Creating a cross-reference to a cross-reference might easily result in eaDocX going into an endless loop, which would be very hard to detect.

    As an alternative…

    If I understand your problem correctly, you might add details of each User Interface element as you describe each Use Case, and make the UI elements document a list of their Requirements, using the ‘Advanced’ option for the relationship. This allows you to specify multi-hop relationships: UI –>children –> GUIElement –> relationship –> Requirement.

    Also, are you trying to avoid printing the same Requirement twice? If so, remember that this was an issue for manually-created documents, for obvious reasons. When a document is generated, this isn’t an issue, as EA has the single version of the Requirement text.

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