Hello,
I have the following request (will be posted to Sparx via HTML form, too) for an extended "tabular read & edit view" feature:
A key feature for handling documents (e.g. requirement documents or specifications) is missing in EA: Working with the elements of a package within a fully flexibly configurable table.
(Working style similar to the standard view of the Requirements Management tool DOORS.)
The element list for a package is a first step, but is has several disadvantages:
- Cells cannot be edited in this view. It should be possible to directly edit the contents (necessarily with an undo-functionality to avoid slips of the keys) of every single cell.
- The fields available for being displayed as columns is very limited. It should be possible to display (by manual configuration):
* A defined property of the element (also the ones typically only available via the automation interface)
* A defined "Tagged Value" Value
* A defined "Test" Name/Input/Notes/TestResults...
* Any property of an extended element property (e.g. DateReported of an Issue named "ATP")
* Connector properties (read-only): e.g. Names of all linked Requirements
* ... (somehow flexibly configurable)
* [icing on the cake] Use an EA script (JScript, VBScript...) in order to display (read-only) or insert (externally triggered once, results editable) the results of a used defined script.
- Diagrams and their content is not contained in the list (e.g. for inserting explanatory pictures). An image should be directly visible, editing obviously only in the separate window.
- Main text of the elements is not in the same line as the other attributes, which interrupts the text flow when reading a whole package.
- Operations available to an element (right-click) are not all available in this view. Often, "find in project browser" and another right-click on the found element has to be conducted to e.g. execute Add-In functions.
This feature would greatly improve the usability of EA for Requirement Engineering. At the moment, it is quite hard to tell the user that he has to write a document within EA, but he has no possibility to view the complete contents in a single view (text together with the images in the correct order).
The correct order is dependent on the feature request for the extended sorting possibility (diagrams & packages), see
http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1255963826.
Feel free to comment.
Best regards,
Nils
