Adding a requirement to Rational RequisitePro

To manage a Rational® Requirements Composer requirement, use a wizard to add the requirement to a Rational RequisitePro® project.

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.

About this task

Rich requirement text that is created in Rational Requirements Composer can include formatting, bullets, numbered lists, and images. After adding the requirement to Rational RequisitePro, you can view this rich text in read-only mode in RequisiteWeb. The content is displayed as plain text in the Rational RequisitePro client for Windows®.

For a quick way to add requirements to Rational RequisitePro, select a project in the Project Explorer and click the Manage Requirements in RequisitePro icon in the requirement header. Go to step 4 in the following procedure.

Procedure

To add a requirement to Rational RequisitePro:

  1. Open a requirement in Rational Requirements Composer.
  2. At the Requirement Type field in the header, click the down arrow and select a requirement type, if necessary.
  3. In the header or sidebar Overview section, click the Manage Requirements in RequisitePro icon and click Add Requirement to RequisitePro link.
    Note: When adding a requirement, the requirement type, the attributes and the attribute values will also be added to RequisitePro if they do not already exist. If they do exist, they must match exactly. See also Synchronizing attribute groups and requirement types.
  4. In the Create Requirements in RequisitePro wizard, type a user name and password for the Rational RequisitePro project and click Next.
  5. Select requirements to add and click Next.
  6. Select a package in which to place the new requirement and click Finish.

What to do next

To navigate to the new requirement in RequisiteWeb, 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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