Requirement grid

Requirements Grid is a table with requirements listed in it. It enables you to access all requirements in a project or diagram, lookup requirements by criteria and create requirements.

Creating the requirements grid

Click on Requirement on toolbar and select Requirement Grid from the drop down menu.

Open Requirement Grid

The overview of requirements grid

The requirements grid

Field Description   Click this button to reveal Name and Model Element. To hide them, click this button again. Create a new requirement. To find a requirement by providing its name or documentation. To open the specification of requirement selected in grid. To show the view(s) of requirement selected in grid. To visualize a requirement selected in grid.   Add/ remove property column(s) in Term list.   To update the display on the Term list. To filter requirements by selecting the diagram(s) (or all diagrams) that contain the requirements. To filter requirements by name. The rubber on the right hand side is for clearing the filter content.

The fields in requirements grid

Creating requirement

1. Click on  above the grid.
   

   Create a requirement

2. Name the requirement. You may optionally reset the ID by double-clicking on the ID cell and entering a new one.
   

   Name requirement

   NOTE:

   The requirements created in requirements grid are automatically put under the Requirements model. You may move to another model through dragging and dropping in Model Explorer.

Visualizing a requirement

You can form a diagram with requirement, or show it in an existing diagram by visualizing it in requirements grid. To visualize a requirement:

1. Select the requirement to visualize.
   

   Select a requirement to visualize

2. Click on  above the grid.
   

   Create visualize

3. If you want to visualize requirement in a new diagram, keep Create new diagram selected, select the type of diagram to create and specifying the diagram name.
   

   Name a new diagram

   If you want to visualize requirement in an existing diagram, select Show in existing diagram and select a diagram in the diagram list.
   

   Select an existing requirement diagram to visualize the requirement

4. Click Create button at the bottom of the dialog box.

Filtering requirements

By filtering requirements, requirements that do not match the required naming convention are filtered. To filter, enter the name of requirement, or part of its name at the top right of grid. You can make use of the asterisk (*) character to represent any character(s).

Filter requirement by name

Finding requirement

To find out requirements that match specific naming or documentation pattern:

1. Click  above the grid.
   

   Find a requirement

2. In the Search Text text box, enter the text to search.
   

   Enter requirement name and check Name

3. Click Find. As a result, the matched requirement(s) will be highlighted in grid.
   

   Finding result