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Separate granular permission to create work item template

Who would beneifit? End users like developers, team lead, project manager, release managerWhy is it useful? and How should it work?Currently to create work item templates following permission are required by an end user which is not realistic scen...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under 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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 4 Future 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
almost 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Allow @ mentioning to reference users by display name instead of user id or add a setting to choose.

When working in enterprise environments, it is not efficient to write comments and constantly have to click the "Insert User Link" button to reference a specific user.When LDAP User IDs are cryptic, and not likely to ever be memorized, it seems mo...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Configuring table as a work item attribute in RTC

There should be a ready-to-use, more user friendly way to represent table as a work item attribute. Currently, table can be created using wiki attribute. This expects users to be aware of the Wiki syntax. An XML or HTML like syntax will be more en...
over 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 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...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under 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...
about 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future 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

ALM 20-P-CCM Filtering not working in plans

In ALM 20-P-CCM we are unable to filter for the custom attribute to display only for the "Unassigned" work items.The custom attribute here is "proposed" attribute which is an iteration type, for this attribute in the 'plans' we need to filter only...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration