More than an editor, a project accelerator
In most organizations, documentation is disconnected from project execution: scattered Word files, outdated wikis, or notes with no traceability to requirements or deliverables. The result? Wasted time, low visibility, and inconsistent quality.
With Artidoc, Tuleap redefines documentation as a project enabler.
Your documents become live, connected elements of your project: user stories, requirements, tasks, tickets, test plans, decisions…
They are no longer adjacent to the project — they are part of it.
What is Artidoc?
Artidoc is a native Tuleap Enterprise feature that lets you create collaborative project documents directly within the ALM workspace.
Each document section can be linked to – or become – a traceable artifact, plannable, auditable, and fully integrated with Tuleap tools (trackers, kanbans, roadmaps…).
It’s your all-in-one workspace to:
- Write functional specifications
- Formalize needs, risks, decisions
- Track requirements and evidence of compliance
- Generate tickets or user stories automatically
- Produce documents ready for audits or sharing
A document that lives with your project
With Artidoc, your documents are no longer static snapshots.
They become dynamic, reliable views of live project data.
Thanks to read-only artifact fields display (available since Tuleap 16.12), you can:
- ✅ Instantly see the status of a requirement (in progress, validated, rejected…)
- ✅ Check test coverage or links to validation scenarios
- ✅ Spot dependencies between artifacts, including priority, version, or owner
- ✅ Prepare an audit or review without rebuilding summaries manually
Each visible field is:
- Exported in PDF to retain traceability even offline
- Chosen specifically for the document context
- Automatically synchronized with live project data
- Filtered by user permissions, ensuring confidentiality
📌 Bottom line: you’re no longer just writing documents — you’re driving the project with them.
Example use case: specification, requirement, need
Imagine you’re drafting a requirement in Artidoc for a critical component.
You can immediately display:
- its status (e.g., validated by the Product Owner or not),
- its priority,
- the tests that cover it,
- the ticket tracking its implementation.
All without leaving the document.
If the status or test coverage changes in the tracker, it’s reflected in the document in real time.
✨ Key Features
| Category | What Artidoc offers |
|---|---|
| ✍️ Editing | Rich text editor (Markdown/WYSIWYG), image support, emojis, headers, Zen mode |
| 🧱 Structuring | Table of contents, drag-and-drop section sorting, reusable templates |
| 🔗 Project linkage | Create/link artifacts directly from text, visible fields and metadata, automatic sync |
| 👥 Collaboration | Fine-grained permissions |
| 📤 Publishing | PDF export with customizable templates (cover page, logos, footer) |
| 🛡️ Security | Inherits Tuleap permissions, supports sovereign hosting or on-premise |
Common Use Cases
| Use Case | Objective | What Artidoc enables |
| Agile specifications | Formalize needs, feed the backlog | Create requirements or user stories directly from text |
| Regulatory compliance | Justify requirements, tests, evidence | Embed fields and metadata and traceable artifacts in documentation |
| Audit documentation | Prepare for delivery or inspection | Filtered display + audit-ready PDF export |
| Sprint/review reports | Capture key decisions | Embed decision artifacts directly in the document |
| User release notes | Auto-generate version guides | Link sections to release artifacts, include tags + visuals |
What you gain with Artidoc
🔄 Productivity
- Less duplication: no more copying specs into tickets or backlog.
- Fewer errors: fields like status or priority update automatically.
🧭 Visibility
- Improved clarity for external stakeholders (QA, customers, partners).
- Everyone sees the same project status — even in the document.
✅ Compliance
- Audit-ready documents at any time
- End-to-end traceability between need, proof, plan, and outcome
🧩 Full Tuleap integration
- Dashboards: pull live data from tracked items
- Trackers: every artifact is linked and searchable
- Kanban: view artifact status directly in documents
- Roadmaps: document impact is visible and plannable
Artidoc evolves fast: feature highlights by version
| Version | New feature | Impact |
| 15.10 | Artidoc launch | First document editor linked to project artifacts |
| 15.11 | Image support | Richer, more visual documentation |
| 15.12 | PDF templates | Branded, consistent exports |
| 16.1 | Smoother new editor | Easier, more natural writing experience |
| 16.2 | Section reordering | Easier document restructuring |
| 16.6 | Headers + Zen mode | Better focus and readability |
| 16.12 | Read-only fields + PDF export | Live documents, audit-ready, customized per audience |
In short: why use Artidoc?
✔ Save time and avoid duplication
✔ Plan and follow through directly from the doc
✔ Prepare audits without the manual effort
✔ Bridge business, dev, QA and compliance teams
✔ Keep control of your data (on-prem or sovereign cloud)
