Generating Requirements Docs using the Specification Manager

[leo_dev]

Hi,

please don´t mind my rudimentary english - I am a native german speaker, but I will try to expose my question in english language.
I recently finished my studies in mechatronics / systems engineering and started to work in a company where they use EA. Unfortunately, they didn´t organize any training activity in EA for me, I only got some training manuals and tutorials. Based on these docs I am doing a training project now. Regarding this project I have a question no one here in my company was able to answer - Maybe someone here?

I have already captured the requirements and structured them in packages in the project browser. Now I wanted to generate a requirements document using the specification manager. On the package levels which directly contain some requirements this works well.
However, I would like to create a requirements documentation not on this low level, but on the highest "Requirements" package level. I want this document to contain the whole requirements package structure and the subordinated requirements themselves.

My Project browser looks like this:

> My Model
   > Package: Requirements
      > Diagram: Requirements Overview
      > Package: Functional Requirements
          > Diagram: Functional requirements overview
          > Package: Data Sending Requirements
              > Diagram: Data Sending Overview
              > <<FunctionalRequirement>> ….
              > <<FunctionalRequirement>> ….
          > Package: …..
     > Package: Non-functional requirements
        …………….

If I want the specification manager to generate a requirements doc on the package "Data Sending Requirements", this is no Problem and works well.
But I want to generate a doc on the package level "Requirements" which contains all the subordinated package structure and the included requirements, an empty document is generated. The specification Manager is empty, too in this case.

Does anyone have a suggestion how I can generate such a document on a higher level containing all the Elements and the hierarchy beneath?
Maybe it is only a checkbox or an adjustment i didn´t see so far.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Best regards,
Chris

[Eve]

The Documentation function that exists in the Specification Manager is only a subset of the standard report generation in EA. Open it from the publish ribbon and it won't be generating just the items in the specification manager. (Which is limited to a single package at a time)

If you've customized a report at all, make sure you have the child packages section enabled (but empty).

[leo_dev]

Thanks for your quick Reply!
Yeah, this is the Right way to generate a complete Requirements report, nice!


Regards,
Chris