Editing Objects: Structure & Content Editor

Use this procedure to edit objects, either changing attributes in-cell or using mass update.

Before you begin:

Open a requirement specification in the Structure & Content Editor. See Opening a Specification in the Structure & Content Editor.

  1. Use the View Filter options to show the attributes you want to edit. See View and Display Options: Structure & Content Editor.

  2. To reorder objects in the Structure & Content Editor, click Edit and work with these options:

    Undo. Reverts the current changes for the selected row to the previous condition. A form opens for confirming the undo. If a row was edited using cut and paste, then undo must be applied to both rows in order to fully reverse the operation. Select undo for the pasted row, green, and then the cut row is displayed in red strike-through.

    Cut. The selected row is copied and marked for disconnect with a red strike through. Used with the paste commands to move one or more rows to a new location.

    Copy. Copies the content a selected row(s) for pasting to another location. You can use copy and paste to replace a cut row, which is indicated with red strike-through.

    Paste As Child. Pastes cut, or copied, row(s) beneath the selected row as a child. Child rows are indented beneath the parent. The pasted content is highlighted green. Multiple rows can be pasted.

    Paste Above. Pastes a cut, or copied, row(s) above the selected row as a sibling, at the same level. The text in the pasted rows is highlighted green. Multiple rows can be pasted.

    Paste Below. Pastes cut, or copied, row(s) below the selected row as a sibling, at the same level. The text in the pasted rows is highlighted green. Multiple rows can be pasted.

  3. To edit cells on the page, click the Enable Edit button.

    When editing, the Edit button is disabled and the Mass Update, Save, and Cancel controls appear below the page toolbar. A marker appears in the corner of each table cell that can be edited.

  4. Click a marked cell to change its contents.

  5. Click the attribute to view the available edit option listed in this table.

    For this object attribute

    Choose from these available options

    Classification

    None, Non-Functional, Functional, Constraint

    Difficulty

    Medium, Low, High

    Priority

    Medium, Urgent, Pre-assigned, Low, High

    Description

    Type, or copy and paste text

    Owner

    Select owner from listing

  6. Some cells provide drop-down options, while others are text boxes. Still others provide rich-text editing, so the rich-text editing toolbar appears between the Mass Update and Save controls.




    • The rich-text toolbar includes typeface, alignment, color, and other formatting controls.
    • You can type over the information, or use copy and paste to add content from an external source. The source can be rich-text, graphics, tables and OLE objects from Clipboard, PDF, MS Word, MS Excel, and other editors. You can resize pasted graphics and double-click embedded OLE objects to edit them in the source application. (Double-click an MS Excel embedded spread sheet to edit it in Excel.)

    MS Word drawing objects (Shapes, TextBoxes, etc.) are only supported by embedding the drawing canvas or the document snippet in the rich text content using the "Paste Special..." command along with selecting the Embedded Object or Embed Source format. For capturing cropped images in MS Word, the whole image will be captured.

  7. While editing you can also change the effectivity for an object. See Edit the Effectivity.

  8. Click to save your changes.

    The changes are saved.