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Enable queries and widgets based on approval status of work items

We would like to request an improvement for ALM/EWM queries and widgets. Currently, work items can have several approvals with different states, for example open or approved. However, this approval information cannot be used in queries or widgets....
26 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability Submitted

Show pending approvals per approver in Work Item Statistic widget

Scrum Masters and project coordinators regularly need to follow up on pending approvals. Currently, there is no simple way to get an overview of all open approvals assigned to a specific approver. Users must manually open and review individual wor...
26 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability Submitted

Proposal to detach a WorkItem and associate another after the Discard of a Change Set by a dialog box

When a Change Set is Discarded, the associated Work Item remains associated. The requested improvement is as follows: after a Change Set is Discarded, a dialog box should appear offering the option to unlink a Work Item and link a new one in its p...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability Not under consideration

Automatically prefill the current Work Item in progress when promoting from the original Stream to reduce unnecessary clicks

When promoting Work Items, users need to select the current Work Item in progress, which results in additional, unnecessary clicks. Automatically prefill the current Work Item during promotion will streamline the workflow, making the process more ...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability Submitted

Second Parameter Work Item Statistics Widget

In the current state, just one parameter can be set for Work Item Statistics Widget and the information shown by the widget is limited.
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability Future consideration

"Copy URL" feature should be available also in EWM

It would be very useful to have "Copy URL" feature also in EWM (e.g. like in Rhapsody Model Manager) This way would be much easier to send directly from EWM the URL link of files to others (especially for documents in DM)
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability Future consideration

Quick reporting to Work order tracking

When I am viewing a Maximo work order in quick reporting but need to switch to Work order tracking to view another field I have to physically copy and paste the work order number after I switch modes. Having a button or tab at the top to switch mo...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability Not under consideration

Save changes to Work Items in the Breakdown view widget on the dashboard.

We’ve identified an inconsistency in the Breakdown view widget on the dashboard. While it allows users to select and interact with Work Items, it does not allow saving changes made within the widget. In contrast, the same edits can be saved succes...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability Not under consideration

Add new radio button to Due Date date picker that specifies both date and time so users outside server timezone can filter correctly

Users outside the server timezone get incorrect results querying work items when they specify "Due Date is" as filter. The timestamp parameters in the database query sent to filter results are skewed by the difference between the server timezone a...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability Not under consideration

PUB needs to allow the ELM users to be added directly via their login names / login IDs

Let's say we have a meeting which was attended by 20 attendees and now you want to send a action item via EWM sending it to all the 20 attendees in the ELM. to be able to do that in a printable format the attendees list available in the EWM form h...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability Not under consideration