Customizing Administrative Preferences

You can access and customize administrative preferences for Traceable Requirements Management.

Required responsibility: Administrator

This task shows you how to:

See Also
Customizing Preferences
Requirement Specifications Page
Requirements Page
Requirement Detail Page
Specification Detail Page

Set Hidden Sub-Type Options

You can specify which sub-types are available for selection when creating requirements and requirement specifications.

Required responsibility: Administrator

Before you begin: From the top bar, select > Preferences. On the Preferences page, select Requirements.
  1. Select the Hidden Sub-Types category to set the preferences for which sub-types are displayed when creating requirements and requirement specifications:

    Options in this tab... Allow you to customize...
    Show Sub-Types of Requirements Specification Which sub-types are displayed when creating requirement specifications:
    • Customer Requirement Specification
    • Customer Response Requirement Specification
    • Feature Requirement Specification
    • Product Requirement Specification
    • Sub System Requirement Specification
    • System Requirement Specification
    • Customer Specification
    Show Sub-Types of Requirements Which sub-types are displayed when creating requirements:
    • Customer Requirement
    • User Requirement

  2. Click Apply.
  3. If you have set all of the preferences, click Done.

Set Rich Text Editing Options

You can configure the Rich Text Editing setting to specify which editor is used to edit rich content in Traceable Requirements Management.

Important: After you specify Microsoft Word as the rich content editor, this setting cannot be changed to revert to using the HTML Editor as the rich content editor if any content has already been edited using Microsoft Word.

Required responsibility: Administrator

Before you begin: From the top bar, select > Preferences. On the Preferences page, select Product Line.
  1. Select the Rich Text Editing category to set the preference for which editor is used to edit rich content in Traceable Requirements Management:

    Options in this tab... Allow you to customize...
    Preferred Rich Text Editor Which editor is used to edit rich content in Traceable Requirements Management:
    • HTML Editor
    • MS Word

  2. Click Apply.
  3. If you have set all of the preferences, click Done.

Set Ownership Inheritance Option

You can configure the Default Ownership Inheritance Behavior setting to specify whether requirement objects can inherit ownership access from their parent object and propagate ownership access to child objects. If enabled, users can configure ownership inheritance settings for each type of requirement object that they create.

Note: These settings apply only to requirement objects made after the option is configured.

Required responsibility: Administrator

Before you begin: From the top bar, select > Preferences. On the Preferences page, select Requirements.
  1. Select the Ownership Inheritance category to specify whether requirement objects can inherit ownership access from their parent object and propagate ownership access to child objects:

    Option in this tab... Allow you to customize...
    Default Ownership Inheritance Behavior on Object Creation Whether ownership inheritance is enabled in Traceable Requirements Management for a specific relationship direction:

    Setting Effect
    Allow to Propagate Access Select to enable requirement objects to propagate access to all child objects through ownership inheritance.
    Allow to Inherit Access Select to enable access to requirement objects through ownership inheritance from the parent object.

  2. Click Apply.
  3. If you have set all of the preferences, click Done.