The tabs

The Properties Panel has seven tabs:

Details

The most-used tab. Shows the element's metadata — code, name, item type, access partition, creation date, last modifier, plus all the attribute values the project has defined for that element type.

• If the element is checked out by you (green), attribute values are editable here. Changes go into the current check-out and are committed when you check in.
• If the element is checked in or checked out by someone else, attribute values are read-only.

The Details tab is also where you change an item's type (Item, Heading, Text) via the isRequirement attribute.

Linked Items

Traceability for the selected element — incoming and outgoing links to other items.

• Incoming links — items that link TO this one (e.g., higher-level requirements that derive into this one).
• Outgoing links — items this one links TO (e.g., tests that verify this requirement, lower-level requirements derived from it).

From this tab you can:

• Click any linked item to navigate to it
• Click Add Link to create new traceability links
• Remove existing links

Traceability is covered in depth in Module 2 (Traceability). This tab is where you'll spend most of your time on that topic.

History

Every check-in creates a version. The History tab shows the full version timeline for the element.

Each version shows:

• The version number
• The user who created it
• The check-in timestamp
• The check-in comment

You can compare two versions to see what changed, and with the right permissions, revert to a previous version. Version history is the audit trail your team and any auditors will rely on.

Comments

A threaded discussion area attached to the element. Useful for reviewer feedback, clarification questions, or back-and-forth decisions about the element.

Comments are independent of the check-in / check-out cycle — anyone with read access can add a comment without taking the lock on the element.

Approvals

The element's approval state — who has approved, who has rejected, and who is still pending. Whether you can approve, reject, or only view depends on your role in the project's review workflow.

Approvals are typically gated by a review (Section 1.8 in this module), but individual elements can also be approved directly here.

Associated Files

Where you attach files to the element — design diagrams, supporting documents, screenshots, test reports, source PDFs. The attached files are stored with the element and travel with it through baselines and exports.

Attached files do not replace traceability links — they're for external artifacts that aren't tracked as Visure items.

AI Assistant

Visure's AI features for the selected element. Typical capabilities include requirement quality analysis, suggested rewrites for ambiguous text, and prompt-driven generation of related items.

What's available depends on the installation's AI configuration. If the tab is empty or disabled, AI features haven't been configured in your project — check with an administrator.

When information isn't where you expect

If you've selected an element and don't see the tab you need:

• No Properties Panel at all? You're probably in Home, Dashboards, Views, Data Models, or the Traceability Matrix. The panel doesn't appear there. Switch to Documents.
• Tab present but empty? You may not have permissions to see that data (common for Approvals if you're not in the review workflow), or the data simply doesn't exist yet (e.g., a new item has no History or Linked Items).
• Can't edit attribute values? Check the color bar. If it's not green, you don't have the element checked out.