Editing Properties

You can edit the properties of one or more objects.

This task shows you how to:

Editing the Properties of a Single Object
Editing the Properties of Multiple Objects

Before you begin: Open at least one root object in the Requirements Structure Editor.

Editing the Properties of a Single Object

You can edit the properties of a single object using its Properties page.

Select the object in the structure.
From the Edit tab, select Edit Properties .
Click Edit mode to toggle the page into Edit mode.
Edit the properties as needed.
For the following object types, only the Title and Description properties are editable:
- Requirement Specifications Folder
- Requirement Specification
- Chapter
- Comment. You can change the owner of the "Comment" object.
For requirements, the following properties are editable:
- Title
- Priority
- Difficulty
- Requirement Classification
- Requirement Category
- Parameter values (if one or more parameters are associated withe the requirement). "Parameter" object is different from other objects. You can edit several values.
For parameters, the Title, Description, and any parameter values are editable.
Click Save.
Click Close.

Editing the Properties of Multiple Objects

You can select multiple objects, except for parameters, then edit the values of any properties that are common to all of the objects. You cannot edit the properties of parameters along with any other requirement objects.

Press Ctrl then click all of the objects in the structure whose shared properties you want to edit at the same time.
From the Edit tab, select Edit Properties .
Each property where their are different values among the selected objects is preceded by (multiple).
Click Edit mode to toggle the page into Edit mode.
Do one of the following:
- To assign the same value to all of the selected objects if none of them have one, type the new value in the empty field.
- To assign one of the existing values to all of the selected objects, select the value from the list.
- To assign the same new value to all of the selected objects: click Define for all , type the new value in the field, then click out of the field.
- To use a regular expression to change part of the values of all of the selected objects:
  1. Click Define for all .
  2. Click Replace with RegExp .
  3. In the top field, type the regular expression to select the text in the existing property values that you want to replace.
  4. In the bottom field, type the new text with which you want to replace the text selected by the regular expression.
  5. Click out of the text fields.
Click Save.
Click Close.