# Requirements

Get your team's requirements out of their silo and in front of the engineering team, using granular permissions and [programs](https://docs.violetlabs.com/features/programs "mention") to enable org-wide visibility (balanced with powerful role-based access control).

### Get requirements where they need to be

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Customer requirements live in a tool you don't use? Love your current requirements management tool but need requirements in other applications?

**Create a Violet Integration to other requirements management tools, including:** [jama](https://docs.violetlabs.com/apps/j/jama "mention"), [flow](https://docs.violetlabs.com/apps/f/flow "mention"), [valispace](https://docs.violetlabs.com/apps/v/valispace "mention"), [doors](https://docs.violetlabs.com/apps/d/doors "mention") and more.
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* Help your team view requirements without overpaying for access
* Push sync'd requirements to downstream tools, like [github](https://docs.violetlabs.com/apps/g/github "mention") or [jira](https://docs.violetlabs.com/apps/j/jira "mention")
* Easily view the applications and entities in other tools where requirements were shared in a [multisource](https://docs.violetlabs.com/features/reports/multisource "mention") report
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### Decompose requirements with clarity

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Keep all your requirements accessible in one view and see decomposition hierarchy all the way down.

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* Link your Violet Requirements to the customer's requirements sync'd from a Violet Integration
* Use simple requirements nesting to convey parent/child relationships
* Apply [systems](https://docs.violetlabs.com/features/requirements/systems "mention") to group requirements into sets of traditional "specifications"
* Reorder requirements in tabular views to stay organized
* [Copy/paste](https://docs.violetlabs.com/features/requirements/getting-started#copy-paste-attribute-values) requirement values or make bulk attribute changes
* Graphically [view](https://docs.violetlabs.com/features/requirements/views) hierarchies or read a traditional document format
* Add [custom-fields](https://docs.violetlabs.com/features/requirements/custom-fields "mention") and relationships to tailor Violet to your needs
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### Continuously evaluate compliance via live links

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Get your time back from compliance assessments and chasing the team to provide their current performance predictions.

Violet's math and data-aware requirements update compliance automatically as design changes.
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* Extract mathematical values from requirements and compare them against other data on Violet - from [scripts](https://docs.violetlabs.com/features/scripts "mention"), CAD, models, supplier data sheets, etc.
* Easily view which requirements are in or out-of-spec according to the latest design data

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### Freely collaborate while controlling Requirements Release

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Requirements are central to developing hardware: everyone needs easy access to them! With Violet, any member of your program team can view requirements and collaborate.

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* Any team member can add [comments](https://docs.violetlabs.com/features/requirements/getting-started#commenting-on-requirements) to requirements and tag a colleague
* Initiate [peer and approval reviews](https://docs.violetlabs.com/features/requirements/peer-reviews) to solicit input from the team, including your customers
* Track all changes to requirements and view in a change log
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### Accelerate verification Closure with Linked Events and Status Tracking

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Link your Violet Requirement to its [verification](https://docs.violetlabs.com/features/requirements/verifications) and let Violet track the completion status.

Integrate your test management tools to drive verification closures.
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* Clearly communicate team responsibility: Violet sets the verifying team member to the owner of the linked test event
* Easily view completion status of linked verification events
* Your Verification Traceability Matrix is always up-to-date

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### Reuse and customize requirements (Coming soon)

Requirements re-use is coming soon. Stay tuned for updates.

### Explore Requirements-Related Features

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><a href="../../features/parameters">parameters</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="../../features/scripts">scripts</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="../../features/requirements/import-and-export">import-and-export</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

## FAQs

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<summary>Can my team access Violet Requirements?</summary>

Yes; users who only need to view requirements are free. Uses who need to edit requirements are considered a requirements user and require a license; see [pricing](https://docs.violetlabs.com/resources/pricing "mention") for details.

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<summary>I already use a requirements tool: why would I use Violet?</summary>

There are great requirements management tools in the market! We've observed their data can become siloed and teams can be challenged to keep the whole group up-to-date. Further, requirements are often disconnected from the design and verification data relating to them, so systems engineers spend lots of time manually keeping things aligned.

Violet offers a means for teams to access their requirements at no extra charge, while also dynamically linking your specs to other data on the platform. Set up a link once and get notified of changes while your traceability products are automatically updated (verification traceability matrices, e.g.). Gone are the days of exporting to CSV: if you need your requirements data in other tools, Violet can synchronize updates to the appropriate destinations.

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<summary>Can my customer or partner organization access Violet Requirements?</summary>

Yes! Violet supports [Guest Users](https://docs.violetlabs.com/resources/administrative/invite-your-team#guest-users), which grants your external collaborators read-access to requirements and the ability to view and add comments.&#x20;

Instead of exporting your latest specs and posting that data to the customer's portal, just invite your stakeholders to Violet where they can directly collaborate!

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