View and Display Options: Structure & Content Editor

Use the Expansion Filter to select the requirements you want to view. You can view the full specification structure with all requirements, the default setting, or limit the listing to a specific requirement classification attribute. Every filter option includes chapters and comments in the results.

Use the View Filter to choose the information you want view with each object.

The Expansion and View filters control what information gets exported by the Export to Word feature because it exports the contents of the work area to an MS Word file. See Export to Word: Structure & Content Editor.

Use the Display options to show objects in a tabular or indented format. The tabular format shows one object per row. The indented format graphically shows the parent and child relationship of the objects. The default display option is Tabular. You can change the default display option from the Settings page. See Make SCE Settings.

This task shows you how to:

Effectivity Filter

Below the toolbar, an Effectivity filter allows you to filter the display of objects by their effectivity:



For information about using the effectivity filter, see Filter Effectivity for Display.

Expansion Filter Options


  • From the Expansion Filter drop-down menu, select an option.

The navigation tree and work area are updated according to the selected option.



List of Expansion Filter options:

Constraint Requirements Only. Displays objects that have a classification attribute that is blank or set to Constraint.

Extended Specification with Derived Requirements. Displays all derived requirements in the specification.

Extended Specification with Sub & Derived Requirements. Displays all sub and derived requirements in the specification.

Extended Specification with Sub Requirements. Displays all sub requirements in the specification.

Full Specification Structure. Displays all objects.

Functional Requirements Only. Displays objects that have a classification attribute that is blank or set to Functional.

Non-Functional Requirements Only. Selects objects to display that have a classification attribute that is blank or set to Non-functional.

Unclassified Requirements Only. Selects objects to display that have a classification attribute that is blank or set to None.

View Filter Options

  1. From View Filter drop-down menu, select an option.

    Use this option

    To show these object attributes

    No Attributes View

    None. This option hides the attributes from the work area.

    Content View or Detail View

    Classification

    Difficulty

    Priority

    Description

    Detail View

    Classification

    Priority

    Description

    Status View

    Lifecycle Status

    Active Engineering Change

    Higher Revision

    Reserved Icon

    Allocation Status

    Owner

    The No Attribute View option is available with Indented display only.

  2. If you select Status View in step 1, to view full traceability for the requirement, click an icon in the Allocation Status column. See Viewing Full Traceability for a Requirement.

Display Options

  • From the Display Options drop-down menu, select a display option.

    The work area changes depending on the option selected.

    Below is a description of the options:

    Tabular. Displays objects in tabular format, with one object in each row.

    Resize the columns by dragging on the right side border of the column heading. Default column widths for regular and rich-text fields are set on the Setting page. See Make SCE Settings.

    If sorting is enabled, click on a sortable column heading to sort the rows by its attribute.

    0px, 10px, 20px, 30px, or 40px. Displays objects indented by the number of pixels selected. The first indent is applied after the Specification level and then to all subsequent child and chapter levels.

    If sorting is enabled, click on a sortable column heading to sort the rows by its attribute.

Customize Table View

To build a customized view of the table which controls the viewing of the Structure Content Editor, click View on the page toolbar.

A page displays table options you can work with. For a description of this page, see Designing Your Own Page Views.