Setting Effectivity

Effectivity defines the criteria by which an object is valid within its parent group. For example, a particular specification may only be valid between certain days in a specification folder or a requirement may be valid only for certain product revisions.

This section describes how to edit effectivity.

This task shows you how to:

Edit the Effectivity

You define effectivity by dates, product revisions, or features. Effectivity is defined for specification and sub group objects under the root specification folder, but it cannot be edited for the root specification folder.

Required responsibilities:

  • Baseline: Leader (when the object is in the Frozen state) or Author

  1. Right-click a requirement object, then select Configure... > Assign Effectivity.
    The Edit Effectivity Definition dialog box opens.
  2. Edit the effectivity definition.
  3. Click Done.