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Creating custom values for specifications and requirements

On the Application Profile landing page, you can create and modify specifications and requirements. You can customize some menu items on these forms to better represent the methodology and terminology of your project.

Requirement and Specification status values

Both requirements and specifications have a Status value that indicates its current implementation status in the project 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

Complete Rule-Application-UseCase.pyCategory.Complete Rule-Application-Requirement.pyStatus.Complete
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Withdrawn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Withdrawn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Withdrawn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: