Creating documents

Documents are rich-text artifacts that you use to capture text-based content. They support several rich-text constructs such as text styles, paragraph justification and indentation, bullets, and links. Create a document and format the textual content by using controls for paragraph and text styles, bulleted lists, paragraph justification and indentation.

About this task

You can add links to new and existing requirements and other artifacts. You can also mark and embed other artifact types, comments, requirements, and images into a document. Embedded requirements and inserted artifacts are updated as the artifacts are modified and saved. For embedded storyboards, use the forward and back arrows in the heading of the image to advance or go back to a specific frame.

Documents in Rational® Requirements Composer include a spell checker. Misspelled words are marked with a red wavy underline. Right-click a misspelled word to select from suggested spellings or to add it to the dictionary.

Procedure

  1. Click File > New > Document.
  2. In the New Document window, type a document name.
  3. Browse to a project and a folder for the new document.
  4. (Optional) Add one or more tags to the document.
  5. (Optional) Select a template for initial content for the document.
  6. (Optional) Click Next, select attribute groups to associate with the document.
  7. Click Finish.
  8. Type text and format the text using the rich-text controls in the toolbar.
  9. Right-click in the document for more editing options, including:

What to do next

To embed images or artifacts in a document do any of the following actions.

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