<rss version="2.0" xmlns:a10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Inflectra Customer Forums: Design traceability within SpiraTeam - how? (Thread)</title><description> For a project in regulated environment I need to create a custom report showing that the requirements are propagating through software design and software architecture.  To achieve this, in the software Requirements Artifact area Ive created the following structure:  SRS    Requirement 1     Requirement 2    Requirement 3 SAD    Architecture 1    Architecture 2 SDD    Design 1    Design 2    Design 3    Design 4  The Requirements artifacts got Component set to Requirements, Architecture ones are Architecture and Design ones are set to Design.     This is the report I want to get in the end:         Requirements  Architecture  Design      Requirement 1  Architecture 1  Design 1 Design 2    Requirement 2     Design 3    Requirement 3  Architecture 2  Design 4        This way I could easily check if there is a gap in design traceability (it would be even nicer if I could paint the empy cell in a different colour, but can live without it).  Question -how can I achieve that? I understand that I need somehow to access the component record of the linked artifact, but not quite sure how?    Can you please help me to change the code below so that itll work as intended?                                                                                                                                                     1 and ArtifactLink/Component = Architecture&gt;,                                                                                                                                                                                                                   1 and ArtifactLink/Component = Design&gt;,                                                                                                                   </description><language>en-US</language><copyright>(C) Copyright 2006-2026 Inflectra Corporation.</copyright><managingEditor>support@inflectra.com</managingEditor><category domain="http://www.dmoz.org">/Computers/Software/Project_Management/</category><category domain="http://www.dmoz.org">/Computers/Software/Quality_Assurance/</category><generator>KronoDesk</generator><a10:contributor><a10:email>support@inflectra.com</a10:email></a10:contributor><a10:id>http://www.inflectra.com/kronodesk/forums/threads</a10:id><ttl>120</ttl><link>/Support/Forum/spirateam/reports/3186.aspx</link><item><guid isPermaLink="false">threadId=3186</guid><author>Vladimir Plotkin (vladimir@inmarsys.com)</author><title>Design traceability within SpiraTeam - how?</title><description> For a project in regulated environment I need to create a custom report showing that the requirements are propagating through software design and software architecture.  To achieve this, in the software Requirements Artifact area Ive created the following structure:  SRS    Requirement 1     Requirement 2    Requirement 3 SAD    Architecture 1    Architecture 2 SDD    Design 1    Design 2    Design 3    Design 4  The Requirements artifacts got Component set to Requirements, Architecture ones are Architecture and Design ones are set to Design.     This is the report I want to get in the end:         Requirements  Architecture  Design      Requirement 1  Architecture 1  Design 1 Design 2    Requirement 2     Design 3    Requirement 3  Architecture 2  Design 4        This way I could easily check if there is a gap in design traceability (it would be even nicer if I could paint the empy cell in a different colour, but can live without it).  Question -how can I achieve that? I understand that I need somehow to access the component record of the linked artifact, but not quite sure how?    Can you please help me to change the code below so that itll work as intended?                                                                                                                                                     1 and ArtifactLink/Component = Architecture&gt;,                                                                                                                                                                                                                   1 and ArtifactLink/Component = Design&gt;,                                                                                                                   </description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:28:14 -0400</pubDate><a10:updated>2026-04-20T11:28:14-04:00</a10:updated><link>/Support/Forum/spirateam/reports/3186.aspx</link></item></channel></rss>