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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.
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 4 Not under consideration

Only run custom value providers on user specified dependencies

In setting up a customized value provider with a javascript based solution, you also define a list of dependencies (attributes) on the attribute for which a value is being calculated or validated by the value provider. It was discovered that in on...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

The right panel in the Query view of EWM web client is sometimes hidden, and the button to deploy it is not visible.

Today I faced an issue with a user who couldn't see his queries. In fact the right panel was hidden.To reproduce this issue :- I opened the "shared queries" page in EWM web client in full screen using a big screen (24 in.) and moved the panel sepa...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Bulk Move Work Items between Project Areas

IBM Engineering Workflow Management should allow bulk migration of work items between different project areas. This feature is available via API, which is officially unsupported.
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Allow "Due Date" permissions to be separated by work item type

For our processes here at Paccar, we want to restrict the due date attribute from being modified for one particular work item. There are a couple of reasons for this: "Due Date are used to create burnup chart and it’s a single measure to make sure...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

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...
about 1 month 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...
about 1 month 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...
about 1 month 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...
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...
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration