Creating New Requirement Types

Owned by Tino Pförtner
Last updated: Nov 29, 2024
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Requirements Types

A requirement type is needed to define the number and kind of the characteristics of a requirement. A requirement type consists of a collection of attributes and the table header will be designed by these types.

  1. Right-click in the "Type Definition" view (you can open the Type Definition view via Window → Show View → other and use the search function to find the Type Definition view).

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  2. Choose New > New Requirement Type to open the dialog "New requirement type".

  3. Enter a name for the requirement type.

  4. Optionally, enter a description.

  5. Set the safety relevance for the requirement type.

  6. Click Finish.

A requirement type will be created and added to the view "Type Definition".

Inserting Attributes

Existing attributes can be used for the requirement type.

  1. Click on Insert to open the "Attribute selection" catalog.

  2. Select the desired attribute.

  3. Click on OK.

The selected attribute is added to the requirement type.

Creating new Attributes

Click on New.

 


[1] Name for the attribute
[2] String, Boolean, Integer, Real, Date, Enumeration (can be customized), XHTML, SOX.Status
[3] Default value
[4] Optionally, enter a description

Name and Status attributes must be applied specifically if you want to import an Excel file. A
name attribute has to be named with ReqIF.Name. A status attribute has to be provided with
the SOX.Status type.

A new attribute is created.

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