Viewing requirements and navigating in projects

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

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To view requirements and associated artifacts, in the Requirement Explorer view, expand a project and its packages to access requirements. The following indicators might be displayed:
  • Requirements are marked with a requirement icon .
  • Requirements with a direct association to a domain element are marked with a link arrow .
  • Requirements with an indirect association to a domain element are marked with a link-by-proxy arrow .
  • Requirement documents are marked with a Microsoft® Word icon .

To open a requirement document, right-click the document in the Requirement Explorer view and click Open Document. RequisitePro opens and displays the Microsoft Word requirements document.

To navigate to a requirement in RequisitePro, right-click a requirement in the Requirement Explorer view, click Select In, and perform 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.

To navigate from a requirement to an associated domain element, right-click a requirement in any of the requirement views and click Select Linked Element. Associated domain elements are marked with a link arrow .

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 choose a context for viewing the requirement:
  • Click Requirement Explorer.
  • Click RequisitePro.
  • Click Microsoft Word.