Working with the Document Editor

The Document Editor is a unique authoring perspective providing an editable design view of a requirements file (REQ). This perspective opens as a separate window and displays the contents of active requirements file in an author, or design, view. This perspective provides an alternative to the Outline Editor that displays a requirements files in a text, or XML tags, view. Consider this perspective as the "author" mode whereas the Outline Editor perspective is a more traditional "text" mode for XML editing.

This perspective provides a more visual means to author and edit document. As you author a document in the Document Editor, the document remains available in the Outline Editor and any changes made within either perspective are synchronized to update the corresponding perspective.

The Document Editor perspective is available from the View menu when a dynamic requirements files is open in the Outline Editor perspective. To view a dynamic document in author mode; in the View menu, click Document Editor. In this example, a general DeedOfTrust document is displayed in the Document Editor.