Creating, Searching and Replacing Specification Texts

Essential Specification Text Properties

A specification text describes certain aspects of a model element. The configured text definitions control which these will be respectively. Text definitions can be configured as components of the documentation.

• Specification texts are possible for all model elements

• Specifications belong directly to the model element

• Specifications for other elements are shown as read-only specifications for certain elements, e.g. the specification for the called process for a call activity.

  When in the active tab of a write-protected text, you can use the Open Specification context menu command or Start>Open>Specification (F3) to open the specification text of the linked element to edit it

• Specification texts are read-only or opened for editing, depending on the Open Documents Read-Only option

• Text definitions can be configured per stereotype, e.g.

  • Description
  • Open issues
  • Special text definitions for certain Innovator functions

• Requirements have the Requirements Text text definition

• You can also display images in file attachments directly as an image instead of as a hyperlink with the Text>Hyperlink>Toggle Display command. You can change the size of the image using the Modify Image context menu command in a dialog. Images are directly outputted in the specification text when printed and upon documentation generation.

• Configured text definitions always exist and cannot be deleted for individual model elements. They can only be empty.

• You can search for text and replace it in specification texts

Formatted and Unformatted Specification Texts

• You can configure text definitions as formatted using the Is Formatted Text property. You can configure a font format combination as a specification; you can set a lock in the configuration for changing the font type and size.

• Formatted specification texts can have individual formatting for Font and Paragraph; text that can be modified can also be reset to the default font; tables from Word, for example, can also be inserted in formatted texts

• Formatted specification texts can contain links:

  • Hyperlinks to model elements

    • You create hyperlinks to model elements simply by using drag-and-drop or via the clipboard

    • Internal model hyperlinks to elements are automatically displayed in green; external model hyperlinks are displayed in blue, as is usual

    • Hyperlinks to model elements that have since been deleted are displayed with a strikethrough

  • Hyperlinks to external targets

    • You can create hyperlinks to external targets (e.g. internet or e-mail address) on the selected text; use the mailto protocol for e-mail addresses so that the e-mail client can be opened using the address entered.

• Unformatted specification texts can be configured in three display forms:

  • Document area (specification editor)
  • Properties area (Properties tool window)
  • Hidden (e.g. for generated texts)