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Email Notification Feature for Overdue Tasks

There is an email notification for the Approver of an overdue task Approval due date,but there is no email notification for the Owner of an overdue task. Users would like to receive notifications when tasks are overdue. Once the overdue date is ex...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Work Item Import: Allow save of incomplete mapping file and import only mapped columns

This belongs to the possibility to import work items from an csv-file. It is possible to create a mapping file between the columns in the csv-file and the attributes in the work item type. It is required to map all columns in the csv-file, before ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

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

For REST API, include all state transitions in stateTransitions information, but omit stateTransitions from itemHistory

In 7.x.x the information in stateTransitions was reduced from one element per state transition to only the first transition per state, this considerably reduces the use of stateTransitions for effective workflow analysis and results in the need to...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

I want to send all the changes made at a certain time in one email.

■ BackgroundWith the current settings, if multiple work items are edited many times,A lot of emails from RTC flew, users missed important changes,You may lose interest in emails from RTC. (It will be treated like spam mail) ■ What you want to doEv...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Redesign the Workflow Transitions grid/table to be more user friendly

Anytime a work item workflow gets about 20+ workflow states, the Transitions table becomes extremely cumbersome as it will not fit well within a users viewable screen area. Having to scroll up/down or left/right cause you to lose your place and no...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Remove "Add Comment" link from approvals section presentation in Eclipse

In Eclipse, the Approvals presentation contains a hyperlink to "Add Comment", when selected the user is taken into the Discussion Comment editor where they can add a new discussion comment. Whilst this is a useful capability in some scenarios, it ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Ability to dynamically change the Editor presentation layout/display on selection of any custom field

Similar to the existing behavior of the tool, where on the event of the work item type change on any work item form, loads the editor presentation associated with the new selection. I would like to have a functionality to achieve a similar behavio...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Not under 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