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whether a development plan can be linked to another development plan using drag and drop method

Hello Team, Drag and dropYou can drag a plan from the plan editor and drop it on another plan editor to link the plans(from one browser to another browser). Additionally, you can drag a plan from the plan editor and drop it on a test plan in Engin...
1 day ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 0 Submitted

Allow users the option not to subscribe to every work item they create or have had ownership of

Currently, it seems users are automatically subscribed to a work item whenever they create it or have had ownership of it. The subscription remains even if the creator never has ownership of the work item, or if they assign ownership to someone el...
4 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 0 Submitted

Multi-threaded comments within work items

Allow for a customizable comment attribute for work items which would allow for users to have multiple threads/conversations in the same work item and keep ideas/conversations separate.
15 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Future consideration

Enable email threading for EWM Work Item Emails

For active users of EWM, a significant number of work item emails are generated. Users would like emails sent by EWM to support a message ID in the email header to allow mail clients to thread the messages in their inbox.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 4 Not under consideration

Only run custom value providers on user specified dependencies

In setting up a customized value provider with a javascript based solution, you also define a list of dependencies (attributes) on the attribute for which a value is being calculated or validated by the value provider. It was discovered that in on...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

Advanced logging of Work Item and Work Item Attachments accessed by users of the system

The GE Aerospace team has been required by the UK Government to provide individual access proof of Work Items in the Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) application. This is a Compliance requirement to be able to demonstrate that exports of info...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Select Custom Attributes When Copying a Work Item

Currently, when creating a copy of a work item, all custom attributes are duplicated without the ability to control which fields should or should not be copied. This results in the unintended duplication of data, including attributes related to au...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Add the default option in "Create Work Item Copy" Operation !!!

Hi team, When I perform the create WI copy operation, by default all the attributes which are filled/populated in the WI, only for those attributes we can either select or deselect it to create a WI copy. We have to manually deselect the “xyz” att...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Contributor search result for workitem's Owned by attribute should be restricted to those who belong to the project area

In EWM version 7.0.2,when I search contributors for Owned by attribute using the traditional search function, search result includes users who do not belong to the project area. So I can choose those users. This is not good for security because EW...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

The right panel in the Query view of EWM web client is sometimes hidden, and the button to deploy it is not visible.

Today I faced an issue with a user who couldn't see his queries. In fact the right panel was hidden.To reproduce this issue :- I opened the "shared queries" page in EWM web client in full screen using a big screen (24 in.) and moved the panel sepa...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration