HTML Outline

The HTML Outline command allows you to view an HTML rendered version of the requirements file as it appears in the Outline Editor. Included in the HTML Outline are all metadata, document information, body sections, package rules, instances, and the field grid. This feature is often used in testing a requirements file. The document opens in your default web browser as a single HTML page.

You can access HTML Outline by selecting Assembly > HTML Outline or by pressing Ctrl+Shift+H. HTML Outline is available for dynamic documents only.

Following is an example of the HTML outline as displayed in a web browser.

HTML Outline Features

The content rendered to the HTML Outline contains the following features.

Table of Contents

The Table of Contents provides easy access to the various sections within the page. Each section contains a link to allow you to quickly return to the top of the page.

Key

Directly under the Table of Contents, a key is provided to define the contextual formatting of the page.

The following table is provided to help define the formatting conventions used within the Key as they apply to the contextual items of the HTML Outline content.

Key Item Description
Standard formatting The following are used as base formatting styles:
  • body: white back ground, black font color
  • base font: 10pt size, Arial
Headings Headings are formatted with bold italic text and 14pt font size. Note that each section heading ends with a link to return to the top of the page.
Section Titles Section titles are formatted with bold text and normal font size.
Note: Section titles are currently not used within the HTML Outline.
Paragraph Standard paragraph is formatted with normal text formatting with a 10pt font size.
Data Item Data items are formatted with bold underline. The following example highlights the start and end of a data item.
Condition Conditions are formatted with red text in the standard font size.
Iterator Iterators are formatted with red text in the standard font size.
Note A note is formatted with bold text. The font size and color follows that of the parent element. The following example show a note within a table cell (which is formatted with a green font color).
List Lists, both sequential or bulleted, are formatted in bold text.
Tables Tables are formatted with green text in bold italics.
Clarification Tags Clarification tags appear in the HTML Outline page to help identify content that is called out from the surrounding content.