Project Requirements page

Use the Requirements project page to create and view requirements. Filter requirements by tag or attribute. Use various parameters to sort and group the requirements. Display requirements in a table or a list. Highlight requirements that have recent changes and comments. To open a requirement, click it.

To open the Requirements project page, in the editor toolbar, click the Open button open button image and select a project. In the project pages, click the Requirements tab.

The list of requirements on the Requirements page displays a maximum of 900 requirements. If more than 900 requirements match the display criteria, add filter criteria to reduce the displayed list.

Creating requirements

To create a requirement, click Create Requirement. For more information, see Creating requirements by using a wizard.

Filtering options

Use the options in the Table 1 to filter the list of requirements on this page. The following actions apply to all filters:

Table 1. Requirements page filtering options
Saved Filters When you filter artifacts, you can name and save the filter by clicking the Selected Filters icon (selected filters icon ) .The filter appears in the Saved Filters section, and is accessible to all users who have access to the project.
Filter Display By Tag This section lists all of the tags in the project. Select one or more tags to display only the requirements with those tags. Shared tags are shown on top of this section in blue; personal tags at the bottom in green.
Filter Display By Attribute This section lists the name, date, user, requirement types, and attribute group values in the project. Select one or more attribute values to display only the artifacts that contain those values.

Sorting and grouping options

Click the column headings or select the following sorting options with the Sorting and Grouping Options button. When you use grouping options, the sorting criteria are applied within the groups.

Use the following grouping options with the Sorting and Grouping Options button.

Display options

Use the following controls to modify the display of artifacts.

Tip: You can view any attribute from an attribute group or requirement type in the project as an additional column in the table view or listed in the list with details view. You can also right-click on the table header in the table view to show or to hide columns from a context menu.

Attribute Editing

If at least one artifact in your artifact list has an attribute group assigned to it, you can edit the attributes of multiple artifacts in one step. To do this:
  1. Select several artifacts, right-click, and select Edit Attributes. The Edit Attributes Values dialog is displayed.
  2. In the Edit Attributes Values dialog, specify new values for the attributes. Note that the modified attribute values are used to update the selected artifacts where applicable. If a selected artifact does not have the corresponding attribute group assigned, it is skipped.
    Note: If an artifact cannot be updated because of a server conflict, an error message is displayed.

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