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EWM Eclipse - Add option for opening the location of a file in file explorer

The behavior of what "Open Local File" opens, how and if it can be saved is not predictable for a user and he will always assume it opens in a way it can be saved as well, but sometimes it is not saved correctly. Several colleagues already have lo...
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 5 Not under consideration

Harmonize Using wildcards in filter fields

In a Workflow Item --> Picklist "Planned For" --> sub menu with "3 blue dots" it is possible to combine wildcard filters like "*SP*20". This Filter provides all Iterations which have "....SP....20..." somewhere in the name. --> see attach...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 2 Future consideration

Cannot query if any work item is set or no workitem is set in work item lists

In queries on the work item list type attribute there are three options. Includes xxx work item. (Containing)Does not include xxx work item. (Not Containing)Does the attribute exist on the work item. (Exists) Unfortunately these options are not ve...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Provide possibility to use sub-queries as conditions in queries

A competitive tool has the possibility to use sub-queries as conditions in queries. This feature is frequently used to structure more complex queries hierarchically. Common sub-queries can be reused in different queries.Currently EWM does not prov...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

Search box glitch - In EWM after work item is loaded focus should not be set to the summary field.

In EWM after work item is loaded the focus is always set to the summary field. This different than in ETM or ERM.With slow network connection following annoying behavior can occur:1) open a work item (e.g. duplicate browser tab of existing work it...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

Create a expand keyword to control the versionId of additional document formats such as Word files

We know that there are expand keywords that can be used with the scm load command in order to print in the file the version provided by the source control tool when it is downloaded. However, the specific expand keyword $VersionId$ only works for ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 4 Not under consideration

Allow changing the default list of columns displayed in new queries

When you create a new query it displays the below column list by default.   Type  Id  Summary  Owned By  Status  Priority  Severity  Modified Date This list needs to be edited for every new query, however. Customers are asking for how to control t...
over 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 2 Not under consideration

In EWM Eclipse client, provide an option to open a Project Area (in Team Artifacts view) as Read-Only

I had two project ares open in EWM Eclipse client. One (production) I was looking at the process configuration to help me decide what to change in a 2nd project area (test area). I inadvertenly changed production and caused a few headaches. If the...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Not under consideration

New Command Line for getting the file version and modified date in a single command

I am using the SCM Command Line Interface to get specific file information and update them in an Excel sheet. Currently, to get the file version and the date it was updated, I use the following two command lines: Version Information - scm list fil...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Provide a "for all" condition to allow for querying on all of the linked artifacts of a work item, approvals, etc.

When adding approval or link data conditions to a query, the logic defaults to "for any". The issue is, that although queries can follow relationships, the query language does not contain any means to express "For all (condition on link and approv...
about 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 2 Not under consideration