Content Comparison

Rich Text Editor An editor allowing to enter formatted text.

When you click inside a text editor, a toolbar becomes visible:

Formatting Text

You can type your text and style it using the buttons or keyboard shortcuts.

Drag and drop support:
You can also drag and drop images or files into the editor. Images will be shown as image scaled to down to have at most 18cm width, files as downloadable hyperlinks.

Smart links:
You can just type any item identifier inside the text box (e.g. REQ-12). When in read mode or in reports this will be transformed into a hyperlink point to the item.

Besides the basic formatting tools the following tools exist:

Remove Font Style
This can be useful if you copy and paste text from a web site or a word document. It will remove some of the fonts and styles used in that document. Be aware that this is a feature of your web-browser and only works to a certain degree. For nicely formatted documents it is better to copy and paste the text first into Notepad.
  Undo Remove Font After Paste

when cutting and pasting text from WORD of a web browser, nearly all formatting will be removed by default in order to ensure it can be included nicely in reports. After pasting something the icon will turn orange, allowing to undo this. The icon stays orange until you change something else.

 Smart text tool
This tool allows you to define text macros and reuse them in the rich text controls. For example you can define a tag product with a value "My Product Name" and insert this anywhere in rich text controls. When editing a rich text field it will show up as "product" when viewing or printing it as "My Product Name".
This can also be useful insert larger text sections, like the intended use in controlled documents. If the tag contains only simple characters and no formatting. It can also added in the word template, e.g. in the header or footer.

Full Screen
Allows you to edit the text in a full screen view.

Code View
Allows you to see and edit the html code which is behind the formatted text.

Plain Text Editor
An editor allowing to enter plain text

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Text Entry Line
Allows to enter one line of text

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Date Picker
Control to select a date

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Using the references control you can enter traces to items which are derived from the item you are editing (down traces), e.g. from requirements to specification:

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To add references: click on the Create ... button, to select already existing item click on the Select button.

Plain Text Editor
An editor allowing to enter plain text

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Text Entry Line
Allows to enter one line of text

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User Selection
A drop down with all users in the project

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Date Picker
Control to select a date

The date picker shows the current date in grey, the selected date in blue.

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Table Controls
Tables are used for example in test cases.

Rich text formatting:
It is also possible to add image or other formatted text into the table cells. When editing a table cell press shift enter and a rich text editor will pop up.

Smart links:
You can just type any item identifier or JIRA issues id inside the table (e.g. REQ-12). When in read mode or in reports this will be transformed into a hyperlink point to the item.

Test Results:
Test results for each step can be added using a drop down menu or a keyboard shortcut.