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Select Specification Package
When you start to work with the Specification Manager, you identify the Package in which to build your specification. When you open the facility, the Specification Package defaults to the first top-level Package in your model, as indicated by the second button in the window toolbar. If this is the Package in which you intend to work, you can go on to configure the display and create or review elements.
You might want to use a different Package that:
| · | Already exists in the model and already contains elements of the specified type |
| · | Already exists in the model but contains no elements of the specified type |
| · | You will create underneath the current Specification Package, OR |
| · | You will create underneath a different Package elsewhere in the model |
Access Package | View as Requirement List
Locate existing Package containing specification elements
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Click on the drop-down arrow at the right hand end of the second toolbar button (indicated by the
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Select the Open Specification Package option. The Select a Specification Package dialog displays. This dialog presents your model hierarchy, filtered to show only those Packages that already contain elements of the type you selected as the Specification element type.
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To expand a Package, click on the arrow next to the Package name, or click on the Expand All button.
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Click on the required Package, and click on the OK button. The Package name displays in the second button in the toolbar, and the elements in the Package are shown in the main body of the Specification Manager window, filtered to the specified type if appropriate.
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Customize the columns and/or add elements to the Package.
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Locate existing empty Package
It is possible that you want to create your specification in a Package that has been set up for this purpose but does not yet contain any elements (or any of the specified type). In this case the Package would not be included in the Select a Specification Package dialog (above). To select this Package for the Specification Manager:
| · | Double click on the Package name in the Project Browser |
The Package name displays in the second button in the toolbar.
If this does not work as described, display the Options dialog (Tools | Options), select the General page and click on the Shows Properties radio button in the Double Click on Browser panel.
Create new Package
This method creates a new Package underneath the current Specification Package.
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Click on the drop-down arrow at the right hand end of the second toolbar button, and select the New Package option. The New Package dialog displays.
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In the Name field, type the name of the new Package. Optionally, you can also select a radio button to automatically create a new diagram in the Package.
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Click on the OK button. The new Package becomes the current Specification Package, named in the window toolbar. The Package is also added to the Project Browser, underneath the previous Specification Package.
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Customize the columns and/or add elements to the Package.
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Create new Package elsewhere in the Model
This method creates a new Package underneath a different parent Package in the model.
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Click on the drop-down arrow at the right hand end of the second toolbar button, and select the Add Package To option. The Browse Project dialog displays, exposing all the Packages in the model.
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Browse through the model and click on the existing Package under which to create the new Package.
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Click on the OK button. The New Package dialog displays.
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In the Name field, type the name of the new Package. Optionally, you can also select a radio button to automatically create a new diagram in the Package.
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Click on the OK button. The new Package becomes the current Specification Package, named in the window toolbar. The Package is also added to the Project Browser, underneath the selected parent Package.
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Customize the columns and/or add elements to the Package.
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