Flexible index matrix

[bcrier]

Hi everyone,

A frequent requriement on projects is visually linking all documentation related to a project together.  For example project workpackets, to requiremetns, to external documents, to technical archietcture docs, to test cases, to external project approval sheets, to extrnal web sites.

Some of this can be done within EA through the use of UML relationships but most often projects end up using Excel or MS word for this fucntionality as not everything is captured in UML, and also sometimes relationships need to be defined at much higher level than UML elements.

So if EA had a simple Excel (hold on, don't kill me yet) sort of functionality, maybe a matrix under the Extended tools.  The matrix cells could contain simple notes, ability to include external links, ability to directly link EA project packages, and maybe a simple column type for sequence number generation.

These relationships do not have to translate down to UML.  It is just a visual interface for providing "visual tracability" on projects. I am sure if we discuss this further, we all have bright ideas on this forum on how this can be built.

I would find this feature useful and it will definitely encourage more people to use EA.

Bobby

[salayande]

Useful feature. The matrix has been used for visualising and relating different concepts or objects and its use is only limited by one's imagination. It is a business tool and I think there is room for extending the scope of the current implementation.
I support this request. Please, kindly place a formal request .

Segun

[Thelonius]

Me too.

If all reports could be generated to a simple CSV format that I could then import into MS Excel -- I'd be very pleased.

The Relationship Matrix is something I'm finding very useful at the moment, but I'm having the dickens of a time getting it to print the whole matrix on an A3 single sheet of paper.

But if it could be exported as CSV -- it would be perfect. Simple and perfect.