From concept to creation
We are pleased to announce that our July 2016 newsletter is available here:
https://www.threesl.com/pages/news/webletter-July16/index.php
which provides home useful tips for customising your Cradle environment, describes a new range of videos for our Russian colleagues, summarises the SysML support in Cradle-7.1.1 and invites you to visit us on stand B4 at INCOSE 2016.
We hope that you find it interesting and helpful!
We are delighted with the many visitors to our stand at INCOSE 2016 over the first day. Thank you very much for visiting us!
If you are at the show and what to see SysML integrated into the lifecycle, or see how requirements management and full document traceability should be done, then please visit us at stand B4 for a chat!
We have a new trailer video that is being featured on our stand B4 at the INCOSE show and is now on our website’s homepage:
Please take a look and tell us what you think!
With best wishes from a sweltering UK!
Trees are a common way to explore the information in a database and controlling tree labels is important as:
• Any query’s results can be shown in Tree style
• Trees are available for each item type from the Project sidebar
• The Phase hierarchy can contain nodes that run queries whose result item are shown as nodes in the phase hierarchy tree
A default tree view can be set for individual items. This view is used to construct the text label whenever a tree node is added for an item of that type. Any frames, linked items, discussions are ignored.
As shown in the screenshot below, “REQ-1” in the DEMO project as the top level item, using the tree view you can see all items which are linked to REQ-1
Cradle has a default for the labels of the nodes in these trees. This default uses an item’s Identity, Name, Key, Version and Draft attributes. This label may not be what you want to see, particularly if:
• Your items are auto-numbered, so the Identity is generated by Cradle and is not important to you,
• If most of this type of item do not have anything in their Name attributes
You can control the contents of labels in tree nodes. To do this:
1. Login to WorkBench as a user who can modify the schema and can create project-wide views
2. Define a new view that lists the attributes that you want to appear in the labels. This view can include any attributes except calculations and frames. Only the first row in the view will be used. Save the view with Project scope, to ensure that everyone can use it.
3. Start Project Setup from the Project tab, set Options to Item Definitions and select the Item Types tab
4. Select the item type whose tree labels are to be set and choose your view from the Tree view: drop-down list
5. Save the schema and close Project Setup
Now when any user sees any items of this type in any tree, the labels for these tree nodes will only contain the information defined by the view.
Setting up tree labels for item types can be a very efficient tool when using Cradle to help your team save time when browsing through the tree nodes for items types, as this will only show the pre determined information the user is looking for.
If you want your reports to match you Corporate style, you can create your own Report Styles in Cradle. Although this example of the Vibrant Corporation takes it to the extreme!
You can save the style and apply it to each report generated throughout Cradle. This applies to HTML and RTF styles, plain text and CSV are not altered. See Cradle help for more details. Whether you are printing a list of items from the database, or the component parts of a data definition or a baseline summary, you can pick from the built in styles or create your own.
Reports can be run from within the Phase hierarchy (great if you need the same report running regularly) or directly through the Reports tool.
We need a software engineer to join the Cradle development team and contribute to the specification, design and build of the current and next generation of Cradle products.
If you are interested, please see here:
https://www.threesl.com/opportunities
where you can download details of the opportunity.
We are pleased to announce that our June newsletter 2016 is available here:
https://www.threesl.com/pages/news/webletter-June16/index.php
which includes the announcement of Cradle-7.1.1 that integrates SysML into the systems lifecycle, invites you to visit us on stand B4 at INCOSE 2016, and discusses other topics of interest to all Cradle users.
We hope that you find it interesting and helpful!
We propose to start a series of regular, open, webinars in which 3SL staff will be available to answer your questions about 3SL and Cradle. The dates and times of the webinars will be listed in our website and anyone will be welcome to attend. They will be timed to allow as many people to connect as possible, wherever you may be based. The webinars will be in English.
The webinars will be one hour and can include any technical or commercial topics. We may propose some specific topic(s) for the webinar, but the emphasis will primarily be on an opportunity to get answers to your questions.
If you have any opinion on this proposal, please send an e-mail to: mark.walker@threesl.com
or send me a message through LinkedIn!
We are pleased to announce that we have released Cradle-7.1.1, an update to the Cradle-7.1 release that added SysML into the range of MBSE notations available in Cradle’s integrated modelling tools.
The Cradle-7.1.1 release changes the way that equipments and ports are drawn in Physical Architecture Diagrams, allowing public ports to be drawn more neatly and more densely inside equipment symbols. It also adds a new ability to run queries on items that are indirectly linked or not linked to other types of iterms, and a variety of other small updates.
Security Codes for Cradle-7.1 will also work with Cradle-7.1.1.
If you have a single-user Cradle-7.1 system, such as Cradle-SE Pro, then you can also upgrade to Cradle-7.1.1.
To get the new release, please go to:
and login and download the software from the Resources section of our website.
If you install Cradle-7.1.1 anywhere, please install it everywhere!
We hope that you will like this new release of Cradle!
Our 3SL colleagues in the US have posted a series of videos demonstrating the SysML support in Cradle-7.1. This is a single demonstration, split into a series of parts:
You can access these demonstration videos here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdnZeLWcaufRjC0MBX1iuuQ
Please look at these videos and see how SysML models can be built in Cradle and how these models can be integrated into other information, including requirements, tests, test cases, defects, issues and risks.
At 3SL we believe that MBSE is the ideal approach (whichever notations you choose to use) but only if it is integrated into all of the other information in your project.
MBSE in isolation is just a bunch of pretty pictures!