Vertical table transformation

When to use it?

• When you have requirements defined in a vertical table (The first column contains property names, and the other columns contain 1 requirement per column)
• When you want to transform requirement links in a vertical table
• When you want to properly define your vertical table headers (See Headers transformation for more details)

Limitations

You won't have as many options when transforming a vertical table, but we recognize that sometimes the choice is dictated by external factors. We suggest defining requirements in horizontal tables to fully benefit from the transformation wizard.

This transformation is only usable on vertical tables, when other transformation rules would not work.

Using the vertical table transformation

You can access the vertical table transformation from the summary step. Like other transformations, you can also save a transformation and reuse it in other pages.

Like with the other transformations, you can select the tables where you want to apply the headers transformation by clicking on the button and typing your selection.

Table configuration

• Choosing the requirement line:

Simply type the requirement line. The selected line is highlighted in the preview, in every selected table, if you chose to select multiple. The transformation wizard will convert the table cells in the row into requirement yogi macros for you.

• Transforming the requirement links:

If your requirements refine a parent requirement, you can indicate the requirement key and choose to automatically transform the requirement links in the table, and we will take care of automatically search and match the table cells to requirements.

• Transform the first row into headers:

Sometimes, tables imported from Word are ill-defined and don't have proper table headers. Table headers are used by requirement yogi to know the properties of your requirements. Table headers are also not transformed in requirement yogi macros.

Changing the plugin configuration

At the summary step before transforming the page, simply click on the rule you want to modify to edit it.