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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

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

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

Button or feature to insert attachment file link into RTC work item HTML rich text editor

Currently, the HTML editor allows you to insert the below link types:* Links* User links* Work item links In addition to these, we would like to request a feature to insert links to attached files of the same work item. Presently, you need to manu...
about 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Enumeration pick list values should be allowed to have role based validation.

We have new requirements coming as wider organization starts to use work item workflows where we need to restrict certain enumerations value to be only allowed by role based restriction. Is this something that can be done? Thanks,Samir
about 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Modify the copy work item functionality

Modify the copy work item functionality in the SAFe Workflow management template so that the user has the option to include linked artifacts. (ie. Parent, Related Artifacts, Dependencies, etc.)
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Uncheck by default attributes to copy in the Create New Work Item Copy feature

We use the Create New Work Item Copy feature by clicking the button in the Web UI toolbar. When we do that we wish to copy certain fields to new work items, but rarely do we wish to copy all fields. (Otherwise we would need work item clone.) The p...
about 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 0 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

Use a GitHub supported workitem pattern in git commit message

EWM supports following patterns in the Git commit message to denote a reference to a EWM workitem:workitem task rtcwi < Work Item ID> bug defect Based on the pattern, links to workitems get created and a browser extension (which is broken me...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

Display read-only attributes from parent work item on child

In a project that contains a parent child relationship, it is helpful to be able to see some of the information from the parent work item as you are creating/modifying the child work item. Information would be read-only
over 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Not under consideration