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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.
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 4 Not under consideration

Configure what type of files can be attached to a workitem

For security reasons, the client's security office wants to be able to limit what type of files can be attached to a work item, such as blocking files with an exe extension and then being able to configure in advanced properties the extensions tha...
29 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

[EWM]: Custom color for custom group for Widget Work Item Statistics

Use case: I would like to have a pie chart to display Open vs Closed Work Items Defect with red color for Open group and green color for Closed group on the widget Work Item Statistics. Current situation: I have added a widget Work Item Statistics...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under 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...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Many times, I get the id of a work item and I need to go track down which plan it is in. It would be nice to have a history of all the plans that a work item is included in, attached to, etc.

When I'm analyzing work items linked to requirements I need to get to the plan or plans that the work item are part of without having to go dig around to find the info. It would be nice to have the plan as some sort of link on the work item as wel...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Separate granular permission to create work item template

Who would beneifit? End users like developers, team lead, project manager, release managerWhy is it useful? and How should it work?Currently to create work item templates following permission are required by an end user which is not realistic scen...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Allow @ mentioning to reference users by display name instead of user id or add a setting to choose.

When working in enterprise environments, it is not efficient to write comments and constantly have to click the "Insert User Link" button to reference a specific user.When LDAP User IDs are cryptic, and not likely to ever be memorized, it seems mo...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under 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

In Eclipse client, change set should also be visible on the “Code Review” tab like it is on “Links” Tab.

In Eclipse client, change set should also be visible on the “Code Review” tab like it is on “Links” Tab making the code review logical. We realise that the change set information is available on the "Code Review" tab on Web client but it should al...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Not under consideration

Create the ability to Disable or have a permission on using the Copy Workitem Function in a workitem.

It would be useful in managing clients who should or should not use the functionality.
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration