How to create custom values for Specifications and Requirements

The Application Profile landing page helps you create and modify requirements and specifications. Certain menu items on these forms may be customized to better represent your project's methodology and terminology. This topic provides guidance on augmenting default values or completely overriding them in your application.

Requirement and Specification status values:

Both requirements and specifications have a Status value which indicates its current implementation status in the project's development cycle.

To add custom values to the list of standard status values, create a field value in one of your application rulesets:

• Applies To: For specifications, enter Rule-Application-UseCase; for requirements, enter Rule-Application-Requirement
• Field Name: For specifications, enter pyCategory; for requirements, enter pyStatus
• Field Value: [Your custom value for this field]

To prevent the standard status values from appearing as menu choices at all, save copies of these field values into one of your application rulesets and change the availability from  Available to Blocked:

Requirement importance values:

Requirements are assigned an Importance value which indicates its priority relative to other requirements in the application.

To add custom values to the list of standard status values, create a field value in one of your application rulesets:

• Applies To: Rule-Application-Requirement
• Field Name: pyImportance
• Field Value: [Your custom value for this field]

To prevent the standard status values from appearing as menu choices at all, save copies of these field values into one of your application rulesets and change the availability from  Available to Blocked:

• Rule-Application-Requirement.pyImportance.1-Critical
• Rule-Application-Requirement.pyImportance.2-Very Important
• Rule-Application-Requirement.pyImportance.3-Important
• Rule-Application-Requirement.pyImportance.4-Desirable
• Rule-Application-Requirement.pyImportance.5-Useful

Requirement category values:

To add custom values to the list of standard requirement Category values, create a field value in one of your application rulesets:

• Applies To: Rule-Application-Requirement
• Field Name: pyCategory
• Field Value: [Your custom value for this field]

To prevent the standard status values from appearing as menu choices at all, save copies of these field values into one of your application rulesets and change the availability from  Available to Blocked:

• Rule-Application-Requirement.pyCategory.Business Rule
• Rule-Application-Requirement.pyCategory.Change Control
• Rule-Application-Requirement.pyCategory.Enterprise Standard
• Rule-Application-Requirement.pyCategory.Functional
• Rule-Application-Requirement.pyCategory.Non Functional

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