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The Application Profile landing page helps you create and modify requirements and specifications. Certain menu items on these forms may be customized to better represent your project's methodology and terminology. This topic provides guidance on augmenting default values or completely overriding them in your application.

 

Requirement and Specification status values:

Both requirements and specifications have a Status value which indicates its current implementation status in the project's development cycle.

To add custom values to the list of standard status values, create a field value in one of your application rulesets:

To prevent the standard status values from appearing as menu choices at all, save copies of these field values into one of your application rulesets and change the availability from  Available to Blocked:

Value as it appears in menus

Specification standard field values

Requirement standard field values

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New

Rule-Application-UseCase.pyCategory.New

Rule-Application-Requirement.pyStatus.New
InProgress

Rule-Application-UseCase.pyCategory.Open

Rule-Application-Requirement.pyStatus.Open
Withdrawn

Rule-Application-UseCase.pyCategory.Withdrawn

Rule-Application-Requirement.pyStatus.Withdrawn
Pending-Development

Rule-Application-UseCase.pyCategory.Pending-Development

Rule-Application-Requirement.pyStatus.Pending-Development
Pending-Deferred

Rule-Application-UseCase.pyCategory.Deferred

Rule-Application-Requirement.pyStatus.Deferred
Pending-Blocked

Rule-Application-UseCase.pyCategory.Pending-Blocked

Rule-Application-Requirement.pyStatus.Pending-Blocked
Pending-Details

Rule-Application-UseCase.pyCategory.Pending-Info

Rule-Application-Requirements.pyStatus.Pending-Info

 

Requirement importance values:

Requirements are assigned an Importance value which indicates its priority relative to other requirements in the application.

To add custom values to the list of standard status values, create a field value in one of your application rulesets:

To prevent the standard status values from appearing as menu choices at all, save copies of these field values into one of your application rulesets and change the availability from  Available to Blocked:

 

Requirement category values:

To add custom values to the list of standard requirement Category values, create a field value in one of your application rulesets:

To prevent the standard status values from appearing as menu choices at all, save copies of these field values into one of your application rulesets and change the availability from  Available to Blocked:

 

Definitions requirement, specification
Related topics

About Field Values

Creating new specifications

Creating new requirements

Using the Application Profile landing page