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Please provided user-friendly message when clicking a link to deleted attachment on history tab a work item.

Please provided user-friendly message when clicking a link to deleted attachment on a work item. When clicking the link for a deleted attachment in history tab, the following message shows up. Error 500: Encountered invalid request This is conf...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

RTS Story Progress Bar not representative of actual progress

The length of the Story Progress Bar is not representative of the actual progress. The attachment shows an example. The actual progress is 95% but the bar is only about half way along, i.e. 50%. Although the information in the pop up is correct, t...
about 6 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Not under consideration

Ability to add "DNG" - type custom links in to RTC for use with NON-SCM artifacts

EWM gives you the ability to create custom work items...great! However if I have something like (Defect, Task, Support Ticket, Enhancement, Documentation Task) I want to be able to create a and track a Defect and a custom "Documentation Link" or "...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Possibility to disable mail generation on CSV import

It should be possible to disable mail generation on CSV import done on the WebUI. Each Work Item is processed for Mail generation. This is also the case when the User has disabled all Mail rules in his profile. Importing thousands of Work Item e...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Possibility to disable automatic subscription on Work Items during CSV Import

It should be possible to disable the automatic subscription of the user who does a CSV import on the WebUI in EWM. When someone imports thousands of Work Items, he is automatically subscribed on each Work Item and will get Emails for any changes ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Influence the order of lined work items (or at least sort them by work item id)

in case there are a lot of linked work items, those work items are not ordered in any way. The best solution would be to allow sorting by the users, but at least those work items should be sorted by work item id. Otherwise it is extremely difficul...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

Parent workitem should resolve automatically if its child work items resolves.

Greetings, We have a requirement for parent work items should resolve if its associated child work items get resolved. Request you to consider this RFE, and help us with the requirement. Kind Regards, Gururaj
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Enable copying of custom attributes and linktypes when using "Copy Work Item"

when copying a work item, different attributes can be selected to be copied as well. This list needs to include custom attributes and linktypes (custom and otherwise). In a hierarchy of items (eg. user stories -> epic) our users frequently copy...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Work Item Query not Showing all Child workitems linked to the Parent

What steps will reproduce the problem?1. Create a Story Workitem2. Create atleast more than 10 child workitems linked to Story3.Create a EWM Query to display the results in a Query What is the expected output? I should have an option to 'View all'...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Provide a file chooser widget in work items to choose a file path

We often wish to record the path to a file in work items, but there is no attribute for that. The Attachments non-attribute-based presentation actually uploads a file, but we don't want to do that -- just obtain the path. This would be a big time ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Not under consideration