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Create Requirements
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Within Enterprise Architect you can create external Requirement elements in a number of ways, such as:
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How to
To create Requirement elements in a diagram
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Open the Custom pages on the Toolbox.
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Drag the Requirement element onto the current diagram.
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Enter the Name and other details for the requirement. Enterprise Architect creates a Requirement element in the current diagram and in the diagram's parent package.
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(The following procedure converts a text section heading into an element name and the section text into the element's Notes text.
You can use this procedure to generate elements of a range of types; however, it is particularly useful for generating Requirements from a requirements specification document.)
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Open an Enterprise Architect diagram in the Diagram View.
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Open the required document file containing the text you want to generate Requirement elements from (this can be opened in any common text editing tool).
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Highlight the required heading and associated text and drag them from the text file into the diagram. The Toolbox Shortcut menu displays.
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Navigate through the menus and select the required element type (in this case, click on Common and Requirement).
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Enterprise Architect creates a (Requirement) element in the diagram, and displays the Properties dialog with the section heading in the Name (or equivalent) field and the text in the Notes field; the element is also added to the diagram's parent package.
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Notes
• | The Requirement element name can be simply descriptive text, with or without a manually-typed reference number; however, as requirements often have to have a unique reference for external checking, you can use the Enterprise Architect auto-numbering facility to automatically apply a numbering system with or without prefixes and suffixes - set the element type to Requirement |
• | External Requirement elements can be displayed with or without an identifying E in the top right corner; to toggle display of this letter, select or deselect the Show stereotype icon for requirements checkbox on the Options dialog, Objects page |
• | Requirement elements can be color coded to indicate their status |
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