When you're working on mapping business processes in Elements, it's essential to have business requirements (also known as "epics") ready before diving into detailed user stories.
This feature allows business analysts and solution architects to generate these requirements directly from the process diagrams—streamlining your workflow and ensuring hierarchical consistency.
Read our solution guide on performing fit-gap analysis from the diagrams to understand the methodology.
Who is this for?
This feature is designed for:
Business Analysts who want to define high-level business requirements before creating detailed user stories.
Solution Architects preparing for fit-gap analysis or transformation planning using hierarchical process maps.
Prerequisites
Your Space must have a Professional, Enterprise or Consulting license
How to generate business requirements
You can generate requirements in three ways:
a. Right-click on a single activity
In edit mode, right-click on any activity box.
Select "Generate business requirement" from the context menu.
The system creates a requirement using the activity’s label as the Summary field.
💡 If custom fields are required on your business requirements, a modal window will appear prompting you to fill in those fields before proceeding.
b. Right-click on multiple selected activities
Select multiple activities (using Command+click on Macbooks or Ctrl + click on standard computers ).
Right-click and choose "Generate business requirements" from the context menu.
Each selected activity will generate an individual requirement with a prefilled summary.
c. Use the diagram-level options
Open the right-hand panel for the entire diagram.
In the Changes tab, click the new "Generate change records" button.
Choose "Business Requirements" (as opposed to the existing “User Stories” AI option).
This creates business requirements for all activities in the diagram.
