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Add variable in work item template

In 7.0.2 EWM it's possible to create workitens using work item template. Today I can include two variables before creating the workitens (Filed Against and Planned For). The request here is to include as a third variable the Parent Link.
19 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 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.
about 1 year 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 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

Copy of a query should also copy 'Team and Project Area Sharing'

In EWM, I would like the team area to be copied as well when I select Save copy. I use an existing query to create other queries for my team. These are all used by the same team. Currently, I use save copy, then have to remember to go to the detai...
22 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Should allow to query workitems containing comma(,) in workitem summary

Looking at the current behaviour, a comma delimited list is inferred as an "OR", so in your case, just searching for ',' will be interpreted as "" OR "" which is everything. There is no way that query searches for summary having just the comma. Pl...
23 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

EWM comments are not editable ,the need is to make it editable

EWM comments are not editable ,the need is to make it editable Any changes in the comments cannot be done, but the user have to add a new comment
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 4 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 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Ability to query EWM Code Review with status "abandoned"

We have deployed the Code Review tool inline with documentation guidance from IBM. Our developers would like to query work items with code review status "abandon". However in EWM documentation below it is missing to mention about "abandon" code re...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

The Default Value and Unassigned Value of the Multi select values shall behave similar to a single select Enum

The current behavior appears to be a design mistake. It does not assign the unassigned value and also does not force user to select some valid value
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

A particular work item query takes 15-30 seconds in EWM when a work item type has 100 custom attribute.

A particular work item query takes 15-30 seconds in EWM when a work item type has 100 custom attribute. The cause of slowness in work item query is the following 2ms( for attributes check) * 118 (attributes) * 50 row = 11800ms = 11.9 sec. Please t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Not under consideration