Describing Development Requirements (SAP Library - CBI Question & Answer Database)

Describing Development Requirements

Use

The Technical Analysis tab allows you to specify development requirements for your project. This information is used to draw up a technical specification from the Development List (DL) that forms the basis for programming. There are specific functional and technical specification templates for each of the areas on the Technical Analysis tab.

Procedure

To create a functional specification:

Select the structure item for which you want to create a functional specification.
Choose one of the items on the Technical Analysis tab (for example, Interfaces).
Select the title row or a field in the table on the lower right screen area and open the context menu (right mouse click).

Select Add.
In the Project Documentation dialog box, enter the following information in the relevant fields and choose Update:

Title: This is displayed in the table of documents and appears as the title in the document itself.

Author

Category: Users with Project Manager authorization may set document categories in the Administration menu. Categories include Administration, Integration, Hardware or different subprojects.

Priority: This indicates the significance of the document for the progress of your project (low, medium, high, undefined).
Status: The default status is Not yet processed. Change this to In Process, On Hold, Under Review, Completed, or Predefined.

Subjects: Use the checkboxes to indicate the subject matter of your document. If you select a subject area for a document, it is then possible to search for documents by subject area.

You can enter Undefined in the Author, Category, Priority, Status, and Subjects fields.

Select Update to open the document template specific to this area.

Enter your development requirements and save the document.
You can view the title, file name and path for the functional specification on the lower right screen area, when you select the corresponding item on the Technical Analysis tab.

It is possible to access functional and technical specifications from different places in the Q&Adb:

Functional Specification	Technical Specification
On the Technical Analysis tab on the upper right screen area	No access to technical specifications
In the Development substructure	No access to technical specifications
In the Documents substructure On the lower right screen area, sort the documents by document type.This allows you to find documents for a particular area more easily (for example, the functional specification for Interfaces).	In the Documents substructure
From the Development List (DL) Select the item you want to open and choose .	From the Development List (DL)

To call up functional or technical specifications on the Technical Analysis tab, select a functional or technical specification in the table on the lower right screen area and open the context menu (right mouse key). You have the following options:

If you want to view the document, select Display.
If you want to edit the document, double-click to open it.
If you want to rename the document, select Rename.
If you want to delete the document, select Delete.

To go to the Development or Documents substructures to the structure item to which the functional or technical specification is assigned:

Select a functional or technical specification on the lower right screen area. Double-click the Reference field, to go to the corresponding structure item.