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Link type "Affected by Defect"

Hi Team, One end of the relationship link is "Affects Plan Item" which, for instance, is used starting with a risk affecting a plan item (feature/story/etc.). Looking from the linked affected plan item, the link shows "Affected by Defect" which is...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Decouple certain attributes from 'Filed Against'

We want to make changes so that moving a work item to new team area doesn’t result in permission error for anything outside of ‘filed against’. Currently, if a user tries to change the filed against on a work item, if a conflicting attribute (such...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Not under consideration

Auto Fill Child work item attributes

Auto fill different attributes to match the parent's same attribute. For example, any stories or tasks under an epic with "Applicable Program" filled out should automatically populate the "Applicable Program" attribute at story and task level. Thi...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

Add Copy Paste Functionality to EWM

Currently in EWM, you have to click into a work item (story, epic, etc) to copy it, you then have to reload the page (when looking through a sprint planning or PI planning view) to see the copied item show up. After this you can move the copied it...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Configuring table as a work item attribute in RTC

There should be a ready-to-use, more user friendly way to represent table as a work item attribute. Currently, table can be created using wiki attribute. This expects users to be aware of the Wiki syntax. An XML or HTML like syntax will be more en...
over 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Future consideration

EWM Pull Request Tab - neglect unmerged PRs

In EWM is possible to configure a Pull Request Tab in the workitems and establish the link of a registered repository. However at the moment whatever Git Pull Request can trigger the hook and appear under the related workitem. It would be interest...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Enable Gitlab/Github flavor markdown

As a software developer, I am working with Gitlab/Github all the time and I found their version of Markdown support is way more productive than the traditional MS Word style formatting. Ever since we switched from Gitlab to EWM, all of our softwar...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 4 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 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Add variable in work item template

In 7.0.2 EWM it's possible to create workitens using work item template. Today I can include two variables before creating the workitens (Filed Against and Planned For). The request here is to include as a third variable the Parent Link.
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future 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...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration