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Cradle comprises several interfaces or modules. These include:
Feel the confidence which comes from knowing that your projects are managed properly and the data is safe. Project Manager may be used as the entry point to Cradle tools and projects. Project Manager allows a project hierarchy to be defined for each Cradle system that has some or all of the projects defined in the project register of that system, grouped into any tree structure that is meaningful to end users. This is where you create, delete, start and stop Cradle projects.
Relish the simplicity of pointing Document Loader at your source documents and sit back and watch as it effortlessly reads your data into Cradle and have that data categorised, numbered as individual items of a user defined type and securely registered and positioned ready for full traceability. Document Loader is a Requirements Capture tool and forms part of the Cradle Toolsuite for Microsoft Office®. Document Loader offers a complete solution for capturing information held in Microsoft Word documents into your Cradle Project Database (PDB).
A typical source document may contain requirements, project-specific items or specifications grouped as paragraph hierarchies. Document Loader reads or parses each paragraph and creates a hierarchy of items in the database. Cross references are created between levels in this structure. Body text, figures and tables are captured into frames of these items.
You can enjoy the convenience of accessing all the information you need in one tool in one interface in one location. Be assured that this gives you maximum control over your project. WorkBench is suitable for a wide variety of types of user, and can be used for a wide variety of tasks within Requirements Management and Systems Engineering processes.
WorkBench is a customisable tool which can be used for both browsing and manipulating Cradle Databases. WorkBench is fully integrated with all desktop tools, including Word, to view any type of data in database items’ frames. Audio, video, figures, documents and tables embedded in database items can be accessed from WorkBench forms or table cells, launching applications as necessary.
WorkBench allows tailored views of the Cradle Database to be created for different groups of project engineers and external stakeholders. It is for groups who benefit from a tailored environment. It can provide a view of just what they want to see and how they want to see it.
WorkBench can become a portal into all project data, showing the project as one or more tables whose cells link to any type of data.
Professional appearance in your data and the documents produced there from, unspoield by spelling errors*. The Spellchecker can be launched as a standalone application or can be started from WorkBench. However started, Spellchecker checks the spelling of a collection of items. The items to be checked are those found by running a query, either the current query (when it is started from WorkBench) or a query chosen by the user (when started standalone). These items are shown in the Spellchecker UI, where you can select or de-select items to further refine which items are checked.
*unspoield is deliberate and proves the value of this tool.
Cradle provides plug-in modules for Microsoft Word and Excel. These are loaded when Cradle is installed on PCs that have Word or Excel 2003, 2007 or XP already installed on them: The plug-ins provide facilities to capture data from documents and spreadsheets into items in the database. You can capture:
You can enjoy the flexibility of being able to access and interact with your Cradle data from anywhere on earth via a secure web front-end. Web Access (Cradle WEB-A module) allows users access to Cradle Databases by directing their web browsers to a Cradle Web Server (CWS). This allows the user to gain access from anywhere on the LAN, WAN or across the Internet. Such users do not need any Cradle software installed and there is no installation of a Cradle-specific web browser plug-in required.
The tool provided to web users is really the contents of web pages displayed in their browsers. These pages are created by the CWS from:
The CWS dynamically creates a web interface containing data drawn from the user’s project database. The web interface provides facilities that allow web users to interact with this database information, to query it, view or edit it, and navigate from it. Exactly what facilities are provided to the user are determined solely by the contents of the HTML templates used to define the form and content of this web interface.
The user has full control of the contents of these HTML templates, e.g.:
Cradle offers an approach to automated report writing and document generation, capturing data from the Cradle Systems Engineering technical database without the design and layout of cumbersome publication templates, graphical editors or the writing of complex scripting languages. This approach is called the Document Publisher.
The Cradle Document Publisher allows you to use Microsoft Word® to construct arbitrarily large and complex documents from datasets in a Cradle Project Database (PDB). Word documents or reports are user-defined through Word documents constructed with tags or bookmarks that are keyed to access database information and define the layout/format of the information in the output document. These documents are regular doc files but are referred to as templates.
Documents can contain embedded text, tables and diagrams. Cross referenced information at any level of complexity can be accessed and reported in the output document. Filtering of data is provided to access information relative to specific conditions when publishing and to control the level or type of data published.
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Cradle-6.4 provides a new Cradle counter module licence which has been included in the Cradle-6.4 release, Cradle-DASH. A Cradle-DASH licence is used when a dashboard-related UI control is opened in any Cradle component (e.g. the Dashboard sidebar). It is released when the UI control is closed.
It is common for managers to manage by exception. That is managers devote their time to solving problems or ensuring that resources are deployed to solve problems. As such, the primary need for information is to know whether all aspects of a project are progressing well, whether there are aspects of the project which are of concern, and whether there are serious problems to be addressed.
It is common to use the term Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the aspects of the projects that are being monitored. Examples of KPIs are:
This allows managers to manage by exception, so that they can quickly assess the state of the project through the colours shown for the KPIs. If everything is green, they can move on to the next phase or project. Areas that are red should be investigated. Investigation only requires a click of a mouse on the coloured box to open that KPI and see what caused it to be red.
The Dashboard feature is available and is the default view in the sidebar:
Cradle Gateway is a requirements traceability solution that links your development and verification documents with formal requirements stored in documents and databases.
Cradle Gateway allows you to configure which specification and working documents to process, the type of traceability information to obtain from each type of document, and the traceability relationship between these documents. Cradle Gateway performs the coverage and impact analysis, graphically displays relationships between documents and generates reports. Cradle Gateway improves the impact analysis throughout a project lifecycle and the quality by managing requirements traceability.
Cradle Gateway includes the following features:
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