Clearing suspect items

After you make changes to a suspect item or determine that changes are not needed, you can clear the suspect flag from the item.

Suspect items are automatically cleared if:

  • A requirement marked as suspect based on a parent/child relationship in a requirement document is moved in the document.
  • An item used as the source to mark all dependent items as suspect is removed from a link.
  • A user with security permissions to edit links, but not clear suspects, removes an item from a link that is causing other items to be marked as suspect.

1. Open an item marked as suspect and click the Suspect Flag next to the status. You can also click Yes next to a flag for a linked suspect item on the Traceability tab.

Tip:  To display items marked as suspect, add the Is Marked as Suspect column to the list and then filter or sort the list. See Changing item list columns and Filtering list columns.

The Investigate Suspect Dependencies dialog box opens.

2. Click Clear Suspect.

The item is no longer marked as suspect.