Notes

The Notes tab allows you to document activities in the requirements file for both internal-only and external (public) view. The tab presents a grid of pre-defined values that can be entered by the author to provide reference, guidance, and summary information about authoring activity and changes made to a requirements file.

Note: The Note element can be used to provide documentation at the element level.

Notes are not converted into content. However, they may be useful to those reviewing requirements files. Only Citation notes are viewable by the end customer. When authoring a new .REQ file, typically only Citation Notes and Private Notes are used. Citation notes include the cite dictating the content or format. Private Notes can be used to document notes about a discussion that resulted in the content appearing a certain way, or a reminder for the author or reviewer to handle the content a specific way.

The Notes tab is available for both dynamic and static documents. This is an example of the notes perspective in a dynamic document.

You can filter the Notes tab by entering the text you wish to filter on within the Description text field and selecting Apply. Only records that match your criteria are then displayed. Once again show all records by selecting Clear.