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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

multiple edit of enumeration-list attribute

Problem: cannot edit the "enumeration list" attribute of multiple work items Steps to reproduce: 1. I'm doing a query and put an "enumeration list" attribute in "Column Display" 2. I'm clicking "Edit multiple work items" button and select all list...
5 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

Delete a link to a changeset into a Work Item when deleting a repository workspace

The user is doing this:1) create a change set and associate a work item with it2) delete the entire workspace from the repository (in which the changeset has been created) Today (in ELM 7.0.2): the link in the associated work item is still in plac...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Uncheck by default attributes to copy in the Create New Work Item Copy feature

We use the Create New Work Item Copy feature by clicking the button in the Web UI toolbar. When we do that we wish to copy certain fields to new work items, but rarely do we wish to copy all fields. (Otherwise we would need work item clone.) The p...
over 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 0 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
11 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.
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Limit the number of users in a Contributor List attribute

It would be perfect for us that IBM creates a property in order to limit the number of users to add in that attribute. For example, If I need to add a maximum of 5 people, it would be perfect to have a property that limits it and prevents someone ...
over 2 years 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration