Capturing from Microsoft Word using Document Loader:

Open the following Microsoft^® Word^® document:

Car Park Requirements (for Document Loader)

This document has a number of draft requirements listed, some with images. The document already has a hierarchy of requirements organised according to the default headers (heading 1, heading 2 etc.)

Open Document Loader by clicking: Start => Cradle => Document Loader:

Then login to your project:

This opens the Document Loader interface:

Click on the open document button:

and browse for this document:CarParkRequirements-loader.doc

Ensure that the default type is set to 'Requirement' (for the purposes of this exercise)

Click OK and the Document Loader will 'read' the document and (if formatted correctly) will create a hierarchy of items, in this case requirements:

To view the document view of the captured document click on the : button.

From here you can explore the hierarchy. if you click on any node in the left column, the associated section of the document becomes highlighted in the document view. Have a look and a play.

This allows you to check in the document which items to capture into your Cradle database.

To capture items you may tick the bockes (by clicking in them) to select them. Or to select everything for capture click this button: to tick all nodes.

Then when you are ready to capture your document into Cradle, click this button:

You have now captured the requirements into your Cradle^® Project. Document Loader has already created the hierarchy from the layout of the document.

Or, go back to Step 3.