Viewing requirements and navigating in projects

You can use the Requirement Explorer view to create and manage requirements for a RequisitePro® project.

To view requirements and associated artifacts:
  1. In the Requirement Explorer view, click a project and its packages to open them and access requirements. Note the following indicators:
    • Requirements are marked with a requirement icon.
    • Requirements with a direct association to a model element are marked with a link arrow.
    • Requirements with an indirect association to a model element are marked with a link-by-proxy arrow.
    • Requirement documents are marked with a Microsoft® Word icon.
  2. To open a requirement document, right-click the document in the Requirement Explorer view and click Open Document. Rational RequisitePro opens and displays the Microsoft Word requirements document.
  3. To navigate to a requirement in Rational RequisitePro, right-click a requirement in the Requirement Explorer view, click Select In, and do one of the following:
    • Click RequisitePro to open RequisitePro and locate the requirement in the RequisitePro Explorer.
    • Click Microsoft Word to open RequisitePro and Microsoft Word with the cursor positioned at the requirement text in the document.
  4. To navigate from a requirement to an associated model element, right-click a requirement in any of the requirement views and click Select Linked Element. Associated model elements are marked with a link arrow.
  5. To navigate from a domain element to an associated requirement, right-click a domain element in a view, click Requirement > Select Linked Requirement in and then do one of the following options, when applicable:
    • Click Requirement Explorer.
    • Click RequisitePro.
    • Click Microsoft Word.
Related concepts
Requirements
Indirect associations
Direct associations
Related tasks
Viewing requirements in query results
Viewing requirements traceability
Modifying requirement properties

Related information

Tutorial on associating requirements and model elements

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