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Custom notes and supplemental information
Custom notes contain supplemental information for elements in your structure, including requirements. Once a custom note is attached to your structure, you use the Custom Notes view to manage the notes.
As users make decisions, hold meetings, and discover problems, they need a way of documenting issues, actions and questions. Custom notes provide the ability to attach a note to anything to document the issue. Custom notes is an important way to capture issues as they happen and directly associate issues with an object. For example, why is this requirement this value? can be directly associated with a requirement along with an answer for future reference.
In Systems Engineering, custom notes are developed through an interface with Microsoft Office Word.
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Source: https://docs.sw.siemens.com/en-US/doc/282219420/PL20251212545240207.plm00038/id1368442 · retrieved 2026-07-10