For an appealing visualization of project information, ReqSuite® RM additionally offers mechanisms to export the contents from the database into Excel documents. For this purpose, one or more Excel documents serving as templates can be attached to a specific project template.

An Excel document being such a template is a normal .xlsx-file. At arbitrary positions in the Excel document, suitable commands of ReqSuite® RM have to be inserted, which will be dynamically replaced by project contents during document generation.

Commands

Currently, the Excel templates support the following commands: “CATEGORY.ATTRIBUTE” and “CATEGORY:TABLE WITH … <ATTRIBUTE>”. Traceability Matrices can be generated through the command “CATEGORY:TABLE WITH … <OTHER CATEGORY> AS OWN COLUMN”. If a relationship attribute is defined for the category exported by “AS OWN COLUMN” and a value for the relationship attribute is set, the value is exported instead of an “X”.

Just like Word templates, Excel templates also support filter operations “[<FILTER_ATTRIBUTE>{=|<>|<|>|<=|>=} <FILTER_VALUE>]”. The files created from the templates will be re-importable in the future.

###CONTENT PROBLEMS## can be used in Excel templates to output the lingual problems detected by the Quality checker.