Requirements view

Requirements describe the product that the customer will buy. They communicate the customer's specifications to the various disciplines involved in the product's development.

The Requirements view displays hierarchical structures of requirements. The top level object, a requirement specification, is a container for requirement and paragraph objects. Within a requirement specification, objects can be structured as parents, children, and siblings.

The Requirements view is displayed when:

• You create a requirement specification or requirement structure.
• You import a requirement specification.
• You open an existing requirement specification or requirement structure.

A tab is created for the requirement specification and requirement structures that you create or open. You click the tab to display the structure.

1. Table display controls — The number box allows you to select the number of rows per requirement. The default setting is one row per object. Additional rows are added per requirement to view multiple lines of text in the table. The column configuration box allows you to select a saved column configuration from the list. Column configurations change the tree table according to the defined columns in the saved configuration.
2. Requirements view toolbar — Displays buttons to support configuration of the requirements.
3. Structure pane — Contains a tab for each requirement specification that you send to Systems Engineering. You click a tab to display that structure in the pane. The requirement specification object occupies the root level on each tab. Below the root level, requirements and paragraphs can be structured in a hierarchy of parent, child, and sibling items. A plus sign (+) is shown to the left of each item with children at the next lower level. You can split the structure pane into upper and lower or left and right portions. For example, you can:
   • Drag and drop a tab to the left, right, or bottom of the structure pane to see views side by side.
   • Resize the upper and lower panes.
   • Close the lower pane.

Related Topics

• Display multiple text lines in the structure view
• Apply a saved column configuration
• Understanding property column configuration