Adding Artifacts to Templates

You can enrich a templates with artifacts and supporting documents.

To add artifacts to templates, follow these steps:

  1. In the Specification Templates Workspace pane, right-click the required template.
  2. Click Create Artifact.
    The Create Artifact page appears.
  3. Enter appropriate values in the fields. Fields marked with a red asterisk are mandatory. Refer to the following table for field descriptions.

    4. Field Name

    Description

    Artifact Name

    Specifies the name of the artifact.

    For example, Enrollments.

    Artifact Description

    Specifies the description about the artifact.

    For example: The artifact can document all decisions for Person and Enrollment module.

    Tree Node Policy

    Specifies the artifact's visibility in the artifact tree in the Requirements Manager. Select an appropriate Tree Node Policy for the artifact:

    • Display Always:

      • Displays the artifact in the artifact tree.

    • Don't display for single child:

      • Does not display the artifact in the artifact tree.

    • Display on multiple child nodes:

      • Displays artifacts when it has more than one child artifacts.

    Support Documents Upload

    Enables the document upload section for the child artifacts.

    Switch the Supporting Documents Upload option ON to upload documents.

    Enable Description

    Enables you to add a description to the child artifacts.

    Switch the Enable Description option ON to enter a description.

    Mail Comments

    Specifies the mail comments that are sent to project users.

    For example: This artifact is a part of Health Migration Template.

    Use this field if the template is being used in any project for creating a specification.

  4. Click .

    5. The artifact is created and added to the template.

You can add supporting artifacts to your artifacts. To add sub-artifacts, follow these steps:

  1. Right-click an artifact and click Create Artifact.

    2. The Create Artifact page appears.

  2. Enter the required fields and click .

    3. Refer to the field description table above.

    The sub-artifact is created and is added to the artifact tree.

Once you have added an artifact to a template, you can create custom forms for the artifact.