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IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

Allow users to set "Copied From" link on a work item

We have a user group who uses the "Create Work Item Copy" to spin off a copy of a work item to indicate it needs to be fixed in a different release/version of their code. Occasionally, a user will manually create a spin off work item without using...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

out-of-the-box EWM feature or custom extension that automatically rolls up and calculates the total value of a budgetary attribute (such as story points) from all child work items and stores the result in the parent work item. For example, a Feature with

help with project and task point calculation

Proposal to detach a WorkItem and associate another after the Discard of a Change Set by a dialog box

When a Change Set is Discarded, the associated Work Item remains associated. The requested improvement is as follows: after a Change Set is Discarded, a dialog box should appear offering the option to unlink a Work Item and link a new one in its p...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Not under consideration

[EWM]: Ability to insert source code blocks in HTML fields

Context: EWM users would like to insert source code blocks within HTML fields in order to clearly distinguish regular text from code. This feature is essential for highlighting code excerpts across various types of work items. However, no native f...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Automatically prefill the current Work Item in progress when promoting from the original Stream to reduce unnecessary clicks

When promoting Work Items, users need to select the current Work Item in progress, which results in additional, unnecessary clicks. Automatically prefill the current Work Item during promotion will streamline the workflow, making the process more ...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

restrict closing a workitem with unapproved change set

It be an absolute compliance enhancement if a restriction can be placed when closing a work item which has unapproved change set. The would benefit developers, team lead, QA stakeholder to name a few.
22 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 0 Submitted

Immutable Storage Paths for Attachments in Workitems

As the ELM database is not intented to store big workitem attachments, an option is to use an external file storage. The path to the storage can be only defined once. It is also not possible to switch back to the database as a storage location for...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Future consideration

Improve table row's background by following 'even and odd' rule of W3C

The table row's background color shall follow 'even and odd' rule of W3C. For the rule read: https://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/evenodd.en.html
29 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Support custom mappings with java script eval

When defining a custom mapping, in case the source and target field's value type does not match,e.g. input field "on hold" is BOOLEAN, but target field is "Requested Due Date Changed On"there shall be support for transforming the value via Java Sc...
29 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Unassigned 1 Not under consideration

Imprecise Error Message When Saving a Custom Mapping

The error message does not contain the necessary information to resolve from the problem. Expected solution: In addition the following information must be mentioned in the error message to make the root cause visible to the user:Enumerate the name...
29 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 3 Under review