Listing Specifications

From the global toolbar, click > Requirements > Requirement Specifications.

The Requirement Specifications page column details are as follows:

Select Box. Click the column header box to select all specifications. Click the row box to select one or more specifications.

Name. Name of the specification or requirement group. The name is a hyperlink. Click it to open the Structure View page in the same window. For a specification, the Structure View page lists all Requirements, Comments, Chapters, and other child objects associated with the specification. For a requirement group, the Structure View lists the owner and effectivity information.

Active Engineering Change icon appears in this column if the object has a related active EC that is not in the Complete, Rejected or Closed state. For details about ECs, see Working with Engineering Changes.

Higher Revision icon appears in this column if a higher revision of the object exists.

Revision. Indicates the current revision of the document. Click the revision number to open the Revisions page. The Revisions page is described in Managing Documents.

Type. The type of the specification (design specification, requirement specification, etc.).

Attached. Indicates attached documents. Click to view list of attachments. See Managing Documents.

Version. Displays the current version number of the specification. Each time the file is checked in, the version number is updated. Click this number to open the File Versions page where all version of the specification are listed along with other options for viewing or downloading files.

Title. Displays the title of the specification.

State. The current state of the specification in its lifecycle.

Project. Indicates the project to which the requirement specification belongs. Click the project name to view its details.

Modified. The date on which the specification was last modified.

Click to open the specification in a new Structure View window. For a specification, see Using Structure View for a Specification. For a requirement group, see Using Structure View for a Requirement Group.

To filter the list of specifications, select the type of class from the drop-down list at the top- right:

Owned. Lists only specifications and requirement groups owned by the current user.

All. Lists all specifications and requirement groups.

All Specifications. Lists all specifications.

Owned Specifications. Lists only specifications owned by the current user.

To view more details about a specification, click the Name of a specification to view it in the Structure View, which lists its chapters, comments, and requirements. See Using Structure View for a Specification. For a requirement group, see Using Structure View for a Requirement Group.

Right-click on the name of the requirement specification and a menu of actions will display.

The default actions are Properties, Structure View, Lifecycle, Add to Collection.

Use the Actions menu or page toolbar to work with specifications:

Create New. Create a new specification. See Creating New Requirement Specifications.

Add to Project Folder. Click to add the selected specification to a project folder that you choose. See Adding Specifications to a Project Folder.

Edit Details. This allows you to edit the details of a specification. See Editing Properties for a Requirement Specification.

Traceability Report. This selection generates various reports showing the relationship of baseline, sub and derived requirements for the selected specifications. Select a menu option to start the report definition. For information about the different traceability reports, see Traceability Reports.

Content Report. Generates a report on the structure of either a Specification Document or System Document. You choose the specification and the report type from the Composite Document Options page. All checked specifications are listed.

Structure Content Editor. Click to see this specification as a document with structure and text content. See Opening a Specification in the Structure & Content Editor.

Structure Compare. Click to compare specification structures. See Defining a Structure Compare Report.

Raise Engineering Change. This creates an engineering change based on the specification. See Working with Engineering Changes.

Attach to Engineering Change. This allows you to search for an existing engineering change and attach this specification to it. See Working with Engineering Changes.

Revision. Click to create revisions of one or more selected objects. See Revising Specification Objects.

Subscribe. Click to select the events for which you would like to be notified for the selected specification(s). For information about subscriptions, see Working with Subscriptions.

Delete. Removes all checked requirements from the list and deletes them from the database; select OK to confirm.

You cannot delete a specification that includes objects reserved by another user.