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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

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...
about 1 month 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...
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

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...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 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

Incomplete mapping cannot be completed without incorrectly importing data

When importing a set of work items from a PA with another base template out of a csv-file, in the source, there may be a field that do not exist in target.There is no problem, if a similar field with a different name exists in the target.But there...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Display the label of work item attributes (if set) in error messages for Required Attributes For Type and State

When you receive an error message about a required attribute not set, the attribute name is used. This is OK if the name of the attribute and the label of the attribute are the same, but is confusing if the label has been set to something more con...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Honor schedule dependencies between parent tasks

Anyone who is used to traditional or MS project style scheduling.
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Workitem should have an attribute and retrieve the stream names

We are looking to have a support in workitem where user can indicate the target branch name/stream name for code implementation. Initially we need to have a field where user can select related Workitem source control: EWM or GitHub. Then another f...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration