Overview

Requirements Centralis a powerful change proposal management tool that allows you to create and maintain requirements created to propose changes to hardware and software products.

With Requirements Central, you can capture and import requirements from an external specification, work with traceability reports related to requirement specifications, and manage decisions made about proposed requirements. You can also perform various functions associated with the management of requirements, such as defining and modifying tasks, and promoting tasks to the next level for approval.

About Requirements Central

This manual includes information on how to:


  • Navigate throughout Requirements Central
  • Use the available tools and features
  • Create, modify, and work with requirements, reports, decisions, and other associated objects

Before Reading This Guide

All ENOVIA products install common components that are shared, providing consistency of features across all applications. Common features allow ENOVIA products to manage information such as user and company profiles, documents, and routes, based on company roles rather than on the application used. These are described in the Common Components User's Guide as well as in Common Components Help.

Other common features include IconMail, generic searching, collections, and preferences. These are described in the Application Exchange Framework User's Guide as well as in AEF Help.

Common feature behaviors that are unique to Requirements Central are described in this user's guide.

Getting the Most Out of This Guide

The Requirements Central User's Guide is organized to help all users understand and use Requirements Central to perform tasks appropriate to their designated roles. It includes information applicable to the management of requirements, reports, decisions, and other associated objects. Here is a summary of the information included in each chapter:


  • This overview introduces users to the Requirements Central User's Guide.
  • Getting Started, describes tasks you perform from many locations within Requirements Central. Use this chapter to learn about the search functions, global toolbar features, and global preferences.
  • Managing Requirements, provides details about how to use Requirements Central to view, create, and modify requirements, as well as their revisions and satisfied features.
  • Managing Specifications, provides details about how to use Requirements Central to view, create, and modify requirement specifications, as well as how to work with a specification's requirements, comments, and chapters.
  • Requirement Capture From MS Word>, provides details about how to use Requirement Capture for MS Word. This application is installed on MS Word to capture and import requirements from an external specification.
  • Requirement Capture from MS Excel, provides details about how to use Requirement Capture for MS Excel. This application is installed on MS Excel to capture and import requirements from an external specification.
  • Traceability Reports, provides details about how to access and work with the different types of traceability reports used in Requirements Central.
  • Structure & Content Editor, provides details about how to view, create, and edit requirement specifications in the Structure & Content Editor.
  • Use Cases and Test Cases, provides details about how to work with use cases and test cases.
  • Techniques, describes business processes that cover multiple tasks. An example is given for capturing customer specifications in MS Word, which includes tasks such as: capturing chapter, requirement, and comment content in MS Word, importing the content into ENOVIA Requirements Central, and then working with the specification.
  • Interface Description, describes menu and toolbar commands specific to Requirements Central.

Published examples in this document, including but not limited to scripts, programs, and related items, are intended to provide some assistance to customers by example. They are for demonstration purposes only. It does not imply an obligation for ENOVIA to provide examples for every published platform, or for every potential permutation of platforms/products/versions/etc.

Conventions Used in This Guide

The conventions used in this guide and within the application are:


  • Remove/Delete--In this guide and within the application, the term delete is used to refer to an action that deletes an item from the database, which means the item is no longer available for viewing or choosing. The term remove is used to refer to an action that disconnects one item from another. The disconnected item is still in the database and is still available for connecting to another item and viewing.
  • Add/Create--Similar to the remove/delete distinction, adding means to connect or associate an existing item to another item. Create means to add an item to the database.

Getting Help

You can get help on the Requirements Central page you are working with by clicking on the page. A separate help page will appear that displays the help topic for the page along with a navigable table of contents for the user's guide. The help window also contains links for Common Components Help and AEF Help.

Related Documentation

In addition to this user's guide, refer to the following documentation for information about Requirements Central administration and ENOVIA products in general.


  • Requirements Central Administrator's Guide which contains information about Business Administrator functions. This manual is intended to help Business Administrators in the host company understand, set up, and configure Requirements Central.
  • Common Components User's Guide which describes features common to ENOVIA products, such as company and user profile management, document management, discussions, issues, and route processing. This is accessible by clicking the Common Components Help link on any help page and is also available in pdf format.
  • Application Exchange Framework User's Guide which describes common features such as IconMail, generic searching, collections, and preferences. This is accessible by clicking the AEF Help link on any help page and is also available in pdf format.
  • Business Process Services Administrator's Guide which describes how Business Administrators can configure and customize ENOVIA products. It is a multivolume book that explains how to configure common components and the JSP pages for each component and how to configure the schema that underlies the ENOVIA products. It is available in pdf format.