What is a specification template?

Note: Microsoft Office Word is required for creating and modifying specification templates.

A specification template is a Microsoft Office Word document that controls the content and format of the data that is exported to Word.

• Defines the overall layout and content of the Word output document.
  • Caution: all live Word documents use portrait orientation; live Word does not recognize landscape orientation.
• Can be associated with specific business object types (such as SpecElementRevision objects, which are requirement object types) by an item revision definition configuration (IRDC).
• Can be selected manually when you export data.
• Can be viewed and edited in Word or in the Teamcenter embedded viewer.

Caution: In output documents based on the default specification template, Word's Normal style can overwrite styles applied to object content. Workaround in the default specification template:

1. Add a dummy paragraph, and apply the overwritten style to the dummy.
2. Save the changes.
3. Delete the dummy paragraph, then save and close the specification template.

Spec Template items and Spec Template Revision item revisions contain datasets of the FullText subclass. Full Text datasets represent Word content by named references to XML files.

Business object types supported by specification templates

Specification templates support the following business object types:

• Specification item objects and subtypes, such as RequirementSpec objects.
• SpecElement item objects and subtypes, such as Requirement and Paragraph objects.
• Full Text datasets and subtypes, such as Note datasets.
• Trace link objects and subtypes.