Adding Artifacts to Templates

You can enrich a template by adding artifacts to the template.

Enriching templates involves:

  1. Adding multiple artifacts to templates
  2. Adding multiple sub-artifacts to an artifact

To add artifacts to templates, follow these steps:

  1. Go to Application Menu > Miscellaneous > Settings > Requirements Manager.
  2. Under the Specification Templates Workspace pane, right-click the required template.
  3. Click Create Artifact.
  4. Enter appropriate values in the fields. Fields marked with a red asterisk are mandatory. Refer to the following table for field descriptions.

    5. 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

    You can use this option to configure artifact visibility in an 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

    Specifies whether documents can be uploaded for the child artifacts.

    Switch Support Documents Upload to ON to enable uploading of documents for the child artifacts.

    Enable Description

    Specifies whether description can be entered for the child artifacts.

    Switch Enable Description to ON to enable entry of description for the child artifacts.

    Mail Comments

    Specifies the mail comments which are sent to the 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.

  5. Click .

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

To add sub-artifacts to artifacts, follow these steps:

  1. Right-click the required artifact and click Create Artifact.

    2. The Create Artifact page appears.

  2. Enter the required fields and click .

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

Once you have created a template and added artifacts to it, you can now create your own custom forms for the artifacts.