Managing Requirements › Merge Requirements

Merge Requirements

You can merge two or more requirements into a single requirement. When you merge requirements, you must select one of the requirements as the master. The remaining merged requirements become inactive children requirements that are listed only on the master requirements page.

Important! Once you merge requirements, this action cannot be undone.

The following rules apply for merging requirements:

• The information in list boxes for the parent and children appears in the master's requirements detail page:
  • Products
  • Product Owner
  • Releases
  • Personas
  • Sources
  • Features
• The following fields are not merged, but the information remains specific to the individual requirements, whether they are parent or child:
  • Requirement ID
  • Labor Estimate
  • Cost Estimate
  • Complexity
  • Priority
  • Type
  • Title
  • Financial Benefits
  • Theme
  • Confidence Level
  • Category
  • State
  • Is Active

  Note: You can open and view the inactive children requirements that appear on the master requirement's detail page.

Follow these steps:

1. Click the Product Vision menu, and click Requirements from the Detailed Planning menu.

   The requirements hierarchy page appears.

2. Highlight the requirements you want to merge and click Merge.

   The merge page appears with the selected requirements listed.

3. Highlight the requirement that is to be the master requirement and click Merge.

   The detail page of the parent appears with the merged requirements listed as child requirements.