Source Documents in WorkBench

Source documents are external documents that are copied into a Cradle project database when items are captured from them into the database. The elements of source documents are source statements. Each source statement is typically a collection of one or more paragraphs, but could be a figure or a table row or table cell. Cross references are created between each source statement and the database item captured from it.

There are two types of source document:

• ASCII, created by the Source Document Manager (SDM) tool in Toolset
• Binary (Word documents), created by the Document Loader tool

Source documents can be viewed from the new Source Documents node in the WorkBench Master Tree. They are supported in queries and can be shown in views. Source documents can be opened when they are shown in an external viewer, either an ASCII viewer or Word, according to their type.

Double-clicking a source document shows the source statements captured from it. These source statements can be opened to show their location in the source document. The source statements can be double-clicked to show the database item(s) to which they are linked:

The source statements are shown in blue as there are pseudo cross references between them and their source document that are created as part of the capturing process.

If the navigation is changed to one that browses bi-directionally or upwards, double clicking items in trees will show any source statements from which they were derived, and as before, these source statements can be opened to show their location in the source document.