Is there a way to view the last modified date of the the Object Text in DOORS? - ibm-doors

Question

I'm new to using DOORS and am trying to create a column/attribute that has the date of the last modification to the Object Text. I found the below code which uses "Last Modified On", but that that includes all attributes and I'm only concerned about the Object Text. Maybe there's a way to specifiy an attribute for this?
Date dMod
dMod = obj."Last Modified On"
dMod = dateAndTime(dMod)
display dMod ""

Answer 1

There's no such attribute on an attribute.
The only way to determine this is via the object's history. Below is the example script from DXL manual. The idea is to loop through the object's history until the history record's typeis modifyObjectand it's attrName equals 'Object Text'. Keep in mind, though, that the history in a module only goes back to the last baseline. So, you may have to browse through all baselines to find the history record you need. See Tony's "Smart History Viewer" at http://www.smartdxl.com/content/?page_id=125 for details.
// history DXL Example
/*
Example history DXL program.
Generate a report of the current Module's
history.
*/
// print a brief report of the history record
void print(History h) {
HistoryType ht = h.type
print h.author "\t" h.date "\t" ht "\t"
if (ht == createType ||
ht == modifyType ||
ht == deleteType) { // attribute type
print h.typeName
} else if (ht == createAttr ||
ht == modifyAttr ||
ht == deleteAttr) {
// attribute definition
print h.attrName
} else if (ht == createObject ||
ht == clipCopyObject ||
ht == modifyObject) { // object
print h.absNo
if (ht==modifyObject) {
// means an attribute has changed
string oldV = h.oldValue
string newV = h.newValue
print " (" h.attrName ":" oldV " -> " newV ")"
}
}
print "\n"
}
// Main program
History h
print "All history\n\n"
for h in current Module do print h
print "\nHistory for current Object\n\n"
for h in current Object do print h
print "\nNon object history\n\n"
for h in top current Module do print h