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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.
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

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

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

Please provide a feature that query work items by selecting tags from check box in Team Concert.

We need a feature that query tags by selecting check box in query condition editor.Currently, there is no such feature in Rational Team Concert.However, JIRA has a such feature. Check box user interface is very helpful when user wants to query wor...
about 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 4 Not under consideration

Engineering Workflow Management(EWM) should have a functionality of filtering workitem change history records based on changed attribute, updatedBy, in the history tab in workitem page.

We have developed an add-on function for automatic calculation of progress and update attribute values for each workitem, that is executed by EWM build engine at a certain interval. Though the function itself works well, it created a lot of workit...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Ability to prevent Team Member from removing an Approval on a Work Item

Requesting the ability to Prevent teammate (colleagues with identical Team Member role) from removing the Approver after the Approval has been added to the workitem and saved. Detailed Use Cases are provided. Our development team has looked at how...
over 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Not under consideration

Drag and drop from Microsoft Outlook to CLM

Drag and drop from Outlook does not work. You always have to save the mail (or doc) first. Can this be improved?
almost 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Not under consideration

Paging the huge set of links as it affect the work items performance

The work items with huge set of links should be paged when there are more then X Links (for example X=10) as it takes more than 30 sec. to load
over 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Not under consideration

mark text and create Workitem

As a Reviewer i want to mark text parts in the Review Findings Attribute (Large HTML) and create a Problem with two clicks (Right Click – Create Problem) that are linked with related to the Review, so that I can work efficiently. The Problem Work-...
about 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 6 Not under consideration