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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: kents on March 04, 2013, 09:45:55 pm

Title: Feature versus Requirement in generated RTF doc?
Post by: kents on March 04, 2013, 09:45:55 pm

Hi,

I am using EA for requirements management, and have created a model containing Feature elements and Requirement elements (from EA's built-in Requirements toolbox. When I generate an RTF report for this model, there is nothing in the document to indicate which elements are Features and which are Requirements. How can I get the report to distinguish between them? Something like prefixing each Feature with the text 'Feature' and prefixing each Requirement with 'Requirement' would do.

By the way, I know that in diagrams, Features have a blue bar at the left hand side of the rectangle, whereas Requirements have a brown bar. But I am not including the diagrams in my RTF report, because I just want the names and notes text of the Features and Requirements, and some of their attributes.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Title: Re: Feature versus Requirement in generated RTF do
Post by: Stefan Bolleininger on March 05, 2013, 02:58:56 am

You could use the Alias or the Elementname for it.

Predefine the aliases or elementname with the prefix you want to use.

The Definition can be done in "Settings->Auto names and Counters"


Since Enterprise Architecdt version 10 you can also RE-Generate ethe Counters to existing packages with "Rightclick to the package and select "Apply auto names and counters""

Regards

Stefan

Title: Re: Feature versus Requirement in generated RTF do
Post by: kents on March 05, 2013, 03:02:20 am

Yes, I could do that. But EA clearly already knows which is a Feature and which is a Requirement, so it seems wrong to have to put in that information again.

Thanks for your response anyway.

Title: Re: Feature versus Requirement in generated RTF do
Post by: Stefan Bolleininger on March 05, 2013, 03:06:40 am

Than you may use Element.Type within your Reports.

Title: Re: Feature versus Requirement in generated RTF do
Post by: kents on March 05, 2013, 03:18:28 am

Yes, that does what I want.

Thank you.