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Not 508 Compliant - Buttons does not receive keyboard focus

ELM - Work Flow Management is not compliant with 508 policy. Please see the attached file for issue encountered during 508 testing.
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Not 508 Compliant - Images missing alternative text attribute

ELM - Work Flow Management is not compliant with 508 policy. Please see the attached file for issue encountered during 508 testing.
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Cycling linking of Work Items shall not be allowed

Requirement: Cycling linking of Work Items shall not be allowed. Example: CR1 contributes to CR2. CR1 also Tracks CR2. This shall not be allowed. This leads to confusion in planning and may be also in some reports. The logic to be implemented for ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Not under consideration

Restriction to user from downloading Work Item's attachment

Work Item has facility to upload the file as an attachment (e.g. txt, pdf, word document, etc.), which contains the most important information of the organization. In order to ensure the data security it is necessary that the attachments should be...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Ability to copy paste the screenshot/Images, also to save the effort to download to view them.

Bhasker Tiwari (Customer) Mar 09, 2022, 15:03 I am working with RTC. There are tools which supports the attaching of screen shot directly to the work item. Steps: Go to RTC Open a work item in the Browser try to attach some file/image The onl...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Not under consideration

In eclipse it shall be possible to link from a query result (several marked files) via context menu “Link to Work Item…” via a “contribute to” or “tracks”-link to another work-item

Tool : Eclipse when I right clicked on a work item and clicked on “Link to work items” a list of link types was displayed. The list doesn’t contain “add Tracks” and “add Contributes to” link types. In comparison with the web UI functionality for t...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Allow risk matrix to use configurable (and not only fixed) attribute IDs as input values

The risk matrix is currently only capable to handle two attributes (probability, severity) with fixed IDs Modify the Risk Matrix so that it does not use a hard coded attributes and could instead use one created by the user. Useful in case of user ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Restrict access to attachments based on work item, state and role

We need to restrict the access of modifying or deleting attachments of any specified work item in RTC based on user role and state. It is available for other attributes but not for attachments. For example, If there are 4 work items in a project a...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Not under consideration

Rational Team Concert CCM Sequential Approvers

The approvers in the boards of approval tab for Change Requests Work Items in Rational Team Concert CCM should be sequential. E.g. the second approver can only approve after the first one did and so on. The order of approvers shall be editable via...
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Links which are based on an Workflow-Item-Attribute must not be allowed when the WF-Item doesn't contains this attribute

For example, the WF-Item "Task" doesn't contain the Attribute "Found In". But it is possible to create a link "Affects Requirement" out of a Task, which is based on the Found In attribute. In this case the link points to a version artifact which i...
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration