Importing requirements from Rational RequisitePro

You can import requirements from Rational® RequisitePro®. Any changes to the requirement text and attributes in Rational Requirements Composer will overwrite the requirement text and attributes in Rational RequisitePro.

Before you begin

Before you begin, configure the integration of the project with a Rational RequisitePro project on a RequisiteWeb server. See Integrating Rational Requirements Composer and Rational RequisitePro.

When you import requirements that are located in Microsoft® Word documents in Rational RequisitePro, the text of the requirements is displayed in Rational Requirements Composer as plain rather than formatted text, and it is read-only. To view the formatted text, follow the link to the requirement in RequisiteWeb. You can edit the requirement attribute values in either tool.

When you import requirements that are not located in Microsoft Word documents in Rational RequisitePro, you can edit the text of the requirements in Rational Requirements Composer. After editing, the text becomes read-only in Rational RequisitePro. It is displayed as plain text in the client for Windows® and formatted text in RequisiteWeb.

Procedure

To import requirements from Rational RequisitePro:

  1. Open the project and click the Administration tab.
  2. In the RequisitePro Connection section, click Import Requirements.
  3. In the Import Requirements from RequisitePro window, enter a user name and password for the Rational RequisitePro project and click Next.
  4. Select the package that contains the requirements to import and click Next.
  5. From the list of available requirements, select requirements to import. If a selected requirement has a requirement type that does not correspond to an attribute group in Rational Requirements Composer, a new attribute group is created. See also Synchronizing attribute groups and requirement types.
  6. Click Next.
  7. Select a folder for storing the requirement and click Finish.

What to do next

To navigate to the new requirement in RequisiteWeb, open the imported requirement and click the link that is displayed at the Managed Requirement field.

RequisiteWeb users can navigate to the requirement in the Rational Requirements Composer client by clicking the Location: Composer:<requirement_name> link in the requirement in RequisiteWeb.

When the requirement is updated and saved in Rational Requirements Composer, the managed requirement in Rational RequisitePro is updated.


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