Creating Scope elements

Creating a Scope structuring element

With Objecteering Scope Manager, you can create four different types of Scope structuring element:

· Dictionaries, which will contain terms

· Requirement containers, which will contain requirements

· Goal containers, which will contain goals

· Business rule containers, which will contain business rules

The procedure for creating any of these Scope structuring elements is the same:

1. Select the appropriate tab in the explorer (the tab if you want to create a requirement container, a goal container or a business rule container, and the tab if you want to create a dictionary).

2. Select the element inside which you want to create the new Scope structuring element.

3. Click on the icon corresponponding to the type of structuring element you want to create.

4. The new element then appears, and you can enter a name for it.

The icons used to create Scope structuring elements are as follows:

Icon	Element created
	Requirement container
	Dictionary
	Goal container
	Business rule container

The example shown below illustrates the creation of a requirement container.

Creating a new requirement container

Steps:

1. In the tab of the explorer, click on the requirement container inside which you wish to create another requirement container.

2. Click on the "Add a requirement container" icon.

3. Enter a name for your new requirement container.

Creating a Scope element

Now that we've seen that there are four types of Scope structuring element, it will not surprise you to learn that there are four types of basic Scope element:

· Terms, which are created inside dictionaries

· Requirements, which are created inside requirement containers

· Goals, which are created inside goal containers

· Business rules, which are created inside business rule containers

There are four ways of creating any Scope element:

· In the relevant tab of the explorer (the tab if you want to create a requirement, a goal or a business rule, and the tab if you want to create a term)

· Directly in a Scope editor using the relevant command ("New requirement", "New goal", "New business rule" or "New term").

· By pressing the "Insert" key in a Scope editor.

· By pressing the "Tabulation" key in the last column and last row (in other words, the bottom right-hand cell) in a Scope editor.

The icons used to create Scope elements are as follows:

Icon	Element created
	Requirement
	Term
	Goal
	Business rule

The following example illustrates the creation of a term in a dictionary.

Creating a term in the explorer

Steps:

1. In the tab of the explorer, click on the dictionary inside which you wish to create a new term.

2. Click on the "Create a term" icon.

3. Type a name for the new term.

Let's now take a look at the creation of the same element, but this time in the Scope editor.

Creating a term in the Scope editor

Steps:

1. Right-click in the Scope editor to display the "New term" command.

2. Click on this command. A new term automatically appears in the Scope editor. Notice that the tab of the explorer is automatically updated after creation of this new term.

Note: A new term could also have been created by pressing the "Insert" key, or by positioning yourself in the bottom right-hand cell of the Scope editor and pressing the "Tabulation" key.