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Capturing from word using Document Loader:
Open the following Microsoft® Word® document:
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:
This opens the Document Loader interface:
The login details are the same as for Workbench or Toolset.
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 exersize)
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.
Capture data from Word® Using the Cradle® Plug-in.
Open the following Microsoft® Word® document:
Car Park Requirements for the Microsoft® Word® plug-in
Select the entire table.
Look for the following icon in the toolbar: 
and click on it.
This opens the Cradle capture dialogue:
The login details are the same as for Workbench or Toolset.
Select 'Capture Settings'.
Ensure that you are capturing Requirements and you will be capturing each table row as a separate item.
Select 'Table Details':
Then you need to Assign the table columns so that the data captured by each column is correct. Assign the correct column values as follows:
Select First |
Select Second |
Then click on: |
| Identity | Number | <-- Assign |
| Version | Version | <-- Assign |
| Draft | Draft ID | <-- Assign |
| Name | Name | <-- Assign |
| Requirement Details | TEXT | <-- Assign |
Then click on Capture
You have now captured the Requirements from the table into your Cradle® Project.
To capture from paragraphs:
The following example shows capturing System Notes of type 'Feature' to the database. The paragraphs are taken from demo sales literature associated with the car park example.
(System Notes are user definable items. The administrator of the project can define a system note to be any type of information/data they need it to be. Cradle has several types of data defined by default as System Notes in the default schema.)
Open the following document in Microsoft® Word®: Car-Park-Sales-literature.doc
Select all the paragraphs to be captured and press the capture button 
to open the capture dialogue as before and select Capture Settings as shown below:
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Item Type =System Note: Type = Feature |
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Select the middle radio button |
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Numbering Options = Feature {number} and Add System Notes to project radio button selected |
Of course the paragraph capture can be used to capture items of many different types.
Selecting item details will allow you to set any global values for item attributes. For example, if “TEST” was added in the Description field, ALL items captured during the operation would have the Description attribute set to “TEST .
Click on the capture button and you will capture each paragraph into a separate system note of type 'feature'
For more information, read the Cradle User Guide
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