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Please add functionality to Quick Search at the same level as Jira to filter work items.

Please add functionality to Quick Search at the same level as Jira to filter work items. [background]Currently, the Quick Search feature in EWM only offers two options: "All work items" and "All unresolved work items". These options are insufficie...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Modify the copy work item functionality

Modify the copy work item functionality in the SAFe Workflow management template so that the user has the option to include linked artifacts. (ie. Parent, Related Artifacts, Dependencies, etc.)
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Button or feature to insert attachment file link into RTC work item HTML rich text editor

Currently, the HTML editor allows you to insert the below link types:* Links* User links* Work item links In addition to these, we would like to request a feature to insert links to attached files of the same work item. Presently, you need to manu...
about 4 years 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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under 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
over 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Unable to filter Code Review issues by "Resolution“ and "Type“

IBM documentation states [1] that "For example, you can filter issues based on the type of issues that are raised (Type), or how an issue was resolved (Resolution)." However that is not possible and APAR ID - PH56447 was raised [2]. In view above ...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Ability to create child work item using the work item template

1. Improve the usability of the work item template to create the child work items in bulk 2. The work items created via template is very difficult to be added to any existing parent work item
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Not able to change the Editor presentation layout/display on selection of any custom field

To match with What JIRA offers and achive the ability to show hide attributes as per the role.
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Use a GitHub supported workitem pattern in git commit message

EWM supports following patterns in the Git commit message to denote a reference to a EWM workitem:workitem task rtcwi < Work Item ID> bug defect Based on the pattern, links to workitems get created and a browser extension (which is broken me...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

Use an editor representation that simply shows the hours or the unit which has been selected when entering the value, but no random combination of arbitrary, not well-defined units.

"Time Estimate" and "Time Spend" are represented in the work item editor in an awkward format. Even specified in hours, it's represented in "days" and "weeks" depending on the value of hours entered. But weeks and days are no precise units and for...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration