Creating requirements

You can create a requirement in a Rational® RequisitePro® project in the Requirement Explorer view.

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About this task

The types of requirements you can create in a project depend on the requirement types defined in the Rational RequisitePro project.

Use the Requirement Editor to enter a description and attribute values for the requirement. You can add HTML tags to format the description and preview the formatted text. The formatting is not displayed in other contexts in RequisitePro; the HTML tags are visible in Attribute Matrix views and in the Rational RequisitePro Properties window. Do not use HTML tags for requirements that are located in Microsoft Word documents.

Procedure

To create a new requirement in a project:

  1. Right-click a project or package in the Requirement Explorer view.
  2. Click Create Requirement by type, and then select a requirement type.
  3. Type a name for the requirement at the requirement icon in the Requirement Explorer view.
  4. Double-click the new requirement in the Requirement Explorer view. The Overview page is displayed in the Requirement Editor.
  5. Type text for the requirement in the Description field. Optionally, you can add HTML tags and click Preview to view them.
  6. Enter attribute values in the Details section.
  7. Click the Save icon on the toolbar.

Results

You can only create database requirements in the integration. To place a requirement in a document, open Rational RequisitePro, select the requirement in an Attribute Matrix, and click Edit > Copy, and then open the document and click RequisitePro > Requirement > Paste.

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