🌷OpenRose

Welcome back to another hands-on demo of OpenRose, a FREE and Open-Source requirements management application that’s helping teams structure, trace, and manage their requirements with precision and flexibility. In this article, we’ll explore one of OpenRose’s most powerful features: importing baseline data . Using a real-world example from a Charity Fundraising project, we’ll walk through how to export and import baseline records, item types, and individual requirements—while preserving hierarchy, traceability, and scope control. Understanding Baselines in OpenRose Baselines in OpenRose are snapshots of your requirements at a specific point in time. They’re immutable by design, except for the ability to include or exclude specific requirements from the baseline scope. When exporting baseline data, you’re not simply backing up a frozen view—you’re preparing it for re-import into a live project , where it can be reused, reorganized, or archived. Depending on what you export, OpenR...

Introduction Hello. Today is an exciting day because we now have an import capability to bring requirements data into OpenRose. This is an important addition, as users can now collaborate more effectively by working offline in their own environments, then exporting the required data — including traceability — and sending it to someone else to review, provide feedback on, or incorporate into a centralized repository. Once imported into the repository, the data can be managed further from that point onwards. About the Feature This feature was requested by OpenRose users and is documented on the project’s wiki. If you visit the repository at http://github.com/openrose , you will find the common area where users can download the application or view the source code, along with documentation. In the OpenRose wiki, we have outlined the concept of importing data into OpenRose. The purpose of allowing users to import data is to enable them to restore requirements data that was previousl...