Recording requirements

Before you start business process modeling, you usually have to discuss with your customers about their needs and to familiarize yourself with their company's operations as well as their problems. During the meeting you can collect useful information from customer, which include the conversation log, documents. You can make use of textual analysis, a text-based editor, to help record those textual information. In addition to a plain text editor, you can identify important terms or objects (e.g. class, use case) from the problem description.

Creating textual analysis

• Click on Requirement on toolbar and select Textual Analysis from the drop down menu.
  
• Right click on Textual Analysis in Diagram Navigator and select New Textual Analysis from the popup menu.
• Select File > New Diagram > Requirements Capturing > Textual Analysis from the main menu.

Create a textual analysis

Problem statement editor

The problem statement editor is where you can record the textual information you obtain from your customers.

Problem statement editor

All buttons on editor's toolbar are depicted in the following table:

Editor's toolbar

No. Name Description 1 Bold Set the highlighted text to bold. 2 Italic Set the highlighted text to italic. 3 Underline Underline the highlighted text. 4 Left Justify Set the alignment of highlighted text to the left. 5 Center Justify Set the alignment of highlighted text to the center. 6 Right Justify Set the alignment of highlighted text to the right. 7 Ordered list Add a numbered list. 8 Un-ordered list Add a list with bullet points. 9 Font Select the font family of highlighted text. 10 Font size Select the size of highlighted text. 11 Font color Select the color of highlighted text. 12 Table Add a table. 13 Background color Select the background color of highlighted text. 14 Clear formats Clear formats of the whole editor to convert the content to plain text. 15 Link Add a hyperlink. 16 Image Add an image. 17 Add Model Element... Insert an existing model element or create a new one.

The description of buttons on problem statement's toolbar

Entering problem statement

Three ways of entering problem statement are provided in Agilian.

• Typing on the editor
• Importing an external text file
• Copying and pasting from an external source

To type in the editor, type the problem statement directly on the editor.

To import a text file, click Import File on the toolbar.

Import file

When the Open dialog box pops out, select a text file to import. As a result, the imported problem statement will be shown on the text area.

To copy and paste from an external source, press Ctrl + C on the selected text and press Ctrl + V for pasting it on the editor.

Formatting text

Since Agilian supports rich text format (RTF), you can format the problem statement on the editor, such as making it bold, italic, or inserting a table.

1. To format text, highlight the target word/ phrase in advance.
   

   Highlight OTV

2. Next, click a corresponding button on the toolbar. i.e. Click Italic button to make the target word italic.
   

   Click Italic button

Finding a keyword

You can search your target word/phrase in problem statement in shortcut through Find feature. Click Find button on the toolbar and then enter the word/ phrase in Search Text. Finally, click Find button next to Search Text. As a result, the word/ phrase matching you typed will be highlighted.

The word memberships is highlighted in problem statement