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Requirements Editor

Development of systems based on requirements, their use and control requires a transparent assignment of the respective system elements affected.

Purpose

The table editor for requirements is used for assigning textual requirements to model elements configured accordingly and supports transfer and control of requirements in the development process of systems. This enables the user to e.g. import a business rule as text from a Word document and link it as a requirement with a use case or a task.

It is easy to create, manage and track requirements with the Innovator Office Integration product included in the Innovator for Business Analysts license and is also available for the other products. It consists of add-ins for the Microsoft products, Word and Excel.

You can use the Word add-in to synchronize requirements in the model with requirements in Word documents.

Innovator Office Integration has an add-in for Excel that you can use for importing requirements from Innovator models.

Structure

To open the requirements editor, select one or more requirements then select Open in the context menu. Each requirement is opened in a separate editor.

The requirements editor consists of an editing field at the top for the requirement's plain text and a table at the bottom with the requirements arranged hierarchically; you can open these individually in the requirements editor.

The requirement's plain text can be formatted.

To create a new sub-requirement, click in the bottom row of the table which has the star as row marker. A new subordinate requirement is created.

Please note that the requirements usually have specifications as well as plain text. These can be opened and edited using [F3].

Supported Procedures in the Table Editor for Requirements

Control Elements

 

 

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