In RequisitePro.....you could create a Type that included a set of Letters as a prefix (e.g. FEAT) so that when viewing the artifact from its original content.....you could immediately be aware of the Type for which it was annotated.

How can this be done in RRC? When seeing artifacts listed in columns of tracibility links (e.g. linked To, ParentOf, AchievedFrom).....its difficult to tell without opening the artifact what Artifact Type was used for the Artifact.

Can Artifact Templates be use for this purpose?

I realize that I can manually add a prefix to each of my artifacts, but I have close to 30 artifact types and close to 1000 artifacts.

Thanks

RRC does not have the concept of a prefix, it is normally the artifact type that determines what type of artifact it is. An alternative if you don't want lots of artifact types is to use a single type, with a list attribute that provides some characteristic of the type of requirements, for example Feature, Stakeholder Request, Need, System, Design, Test, etc.

Now what RRC does provide is rich hover so you can hover over the name of the artifact and see its format, type and attributes. So if you say create a "Satisfied By" link between two artifacts, if you add the "Satisfied By" link as a column in a saved view you can see that 1 artifact is satisfied by 1 or more other artifacts, and by rich hover you can quickly see the attributes for those artifacts.

Alternative you can use a trace tree, where the tree is limited to satisfied by links, and you show the attribute value that shows the characteristic of the artifact as a column. This way even though the artifact type might be the same the attribute distinguishes the differences.