Parent Requirement Configuration
- Mileva Briand
Use case
Depending on the structure of your requirement pages, you may organize your requirements with a first parent requirement at the top, and following tables will actually refine that parent in tables below, with additional requirements.
Giving you a page structure looking like this:
Using this structure, you will want all following requirements to become automatic dependencies to the parent.
How does it work ?
Put the Configuration macro at the top of your page, or the table of your desired children requirements.
Go to the Parent Configuration, and choose the relationship name you desire.
We take the first requirement of the page as the parent, when there is only one requirement defined in the table (ex: a vertical table, or a paragraph), we’ll index it as a parent of all following requirements.
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More precisions
If you want to apply two configurations in your page, you will have to put two configuration macros:
If you want to apply the parent configuration, but still apply a table configuration to tables below, you will have to put two macros.
This will allow you to use several table configurations in your page, while still putting a single parent configuration at the top.
Your first requirement does not have to be inside a table to be indexed as a parent, it can be a simple macro in a paragraph or title. However, the requirements indexed as children will only be the ones defined in tables.