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One search function to identify repository workspaces of all members of the 1 project area we are in

In case of clean-ups, or reassignments, it would be beneficial to project admins and project managers to easily identify all repository workspaces of all users from within a single project. Currently either all project repository workspaces are li...
3 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Submitted

Please add shortcut keys to the Engineering Workflow Management Shell

We make use of shortcut keys in the Web UI and in Eclipse, but we cannot find any for the Shell client. Engineering Workflow Management keyboard shortcuts https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/elm/7.0.3?topic=reference-engineering-workflow-management-keyboa...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to embed images in description and comments

Embedded images in description and comments would enable to see their contents in their specific textual context without needing to download or preview the contents and thus enhance the user experience.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Planned for future release

A mobile app to do few of the basic activities for EWM

It has been ever demanding needs from the user community to have an App so that they can perform activities like: 1. Viewing the plan 2. Updating the status of a work item 3. Creating a new work item 4. View the Dashboard (Optional) 5. Few Basic a...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Ability to add info icon next to the attribute as it appears in the permission section of the RTC Project area

Today RTC offers the tooltip, but it does not provide any visual indication that some note is available. The RTC as an application has this nice implementation in the Permission section of the tool. where you shall be able to see an info icon. I u...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Separate Operation in RTC Process template to modify "Workitem Templates"

Current State: In Process template of RTC-CHM Project Area, “Modify Process Specifications” includes Changes to role definitions, permissions assigned to roles, operation behavior (preconditions and follow-up actions), iterations, configuration da...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

Mouse hover feature to preview document

Support comment: The mouse hover feature did used to work fine in the past for the EWM application (early 6.0.x releases) however, our team felt it was a security issue to have the preview shown for files such as PDFs, Excel and Word docs and as s...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

Local files of different types should be opened in the windows default editor

When opening files within EWM Eclipse, the different types of files should be opened in a local application, or windows default application, instead of opening some of them in the internal viewer. Or at least, the tool should give you this option....
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Attribute Customization Logs contain too many exceptions, which affects the readability of logs.

Attribute Customization Logs contain too many exceptions, which affects the readability of logs. Therefore, you can save the logs to a single log file to avoid interference by log4j.
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 2 Not under consideration

See directly which user has written in a free text field in EWM

In EWM, it is impossible to see directly which user has written in a free text field in order to know the evolution of the thread.A workaround is to go in historical tab which shows all activities done on a ticket.That is to say that each time it ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 0 Future consideration