View and modify requirements in the Requirement Editor
view. Edit the name, description, attributes, and traceability for
the requirement. Add optional HTML tags or use the rich-text editor
to format the description.
About this task
You can add HTML tags manually on the Description page
or edit the formatted text using the rich-text editor on the Preview
page. When you modify the description on the Preview page, the rich-text
editor embeds the HTML tags.
Note: If HTML tags are added to the
description, the formatted text is only displayed in the Preview page
and in the Requirement Text view. The HTML tags are visible on the
Description page, in Attribute Matrix views, and in the Requirement
Properties window in Rational RequisitePro. In those contexts, the
tags detract from readability. Do not use HTML tags to format the
description of requirements that are located in Microsoft Word documents,
because the tags might corrupt the Word rendering of the requirement
text.
Procedure
To view and modify a requirement:
- Double-click a requirement in the Requirement
Explorer view. The Overview page opens
in the Requirement Editor view.
- View or modify the text for the requirement in the Description field.
Optionally, you can add HTML tags and click Preview to
view and edit them with the rich-text editor.
- Enter attribute values in the Details section.
- Click the Traceability tab to view
and modify traceability to and from other requirements.
- Click the Save icon on the toolbar.