Adding traceability reports

Traceability reports include detailed information that allows you to perform coverage analysis by viewing relationships between requirements and related items in a project. See Traceability reports.

1. Choose Create > Report.

The Select Report Type dialog box opens.

2. Select Traceability and click OK.

The Add Traceability Report dialog box opens.

3. Enter a Name and Title. The title appears at the top of the report. You can enter up to 128 characters for the name and 1000 characters for the title.

4. Select a Share with option.

  • No one prevents all other users and customers from using the report.
  • Everyone shares the report with all users and customers.
  • All users shares the report with other users.
  • All customers shares the report with customers.
  • Security groups shares the report with selected security groups.

5. On the Report On tab, select the report to create. See Traceability reports.

Note:  The report stylesheet is automatically applied based on the selected report. See Traceability report stylesheets.

6. Click the Source tab to select the data to include in the report.

  • Click Browse to select the folder that contains the items you want to include. Folders are required for some reports. The folder icon and type are displayed and the release start and end dates are displayed if release planning is enabled for the selected folder. Select Recursive to include child folders of the selected folder and then select the child folder types to include. Click Clear to clear the selected folder path if a folder is not required.
  • Select the item types to include in the report. If an item type is required, it is selected by default and you cannot change the setting. Optionally select a filter for each selected item type if you only want to include filtered items in the report. Click Create Filter to add a filter. See Adding filters.
  • Select Include data for all linked items to include information about any items linked to items included in the report. Select a link definition from the list to specify the links to include.

7. Click the Sorting tab to select a primary or secondary sort column and set the column sort order.

This tab is not available for all traceability reports.

8. To preview the report, click the Preview button.

To save the report as a PDF, click Save Report As PDF. See Saving reports as PDFs.

9. Click Add.

The report is added. See Running reports for information about running reports.