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Non-responsive custom mappings

The implementation of the custom mapping page is not following adaptive (AWD) and responsive web design (RWD), which is a usability issue.The problem is shown in the attachment #1496.If the screen width is reduced, this is only possible to a fixed...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 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...
almost 2 years 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
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Copy of a query should also copy 'Team and Project Area Sharing'

In EWM, I would like the team area to be copied as well when I select Save copy. I use an existing query to create other queries for my team. These are all used by the same team. Currently, I use save copy, then have to remember to go to the detai...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Should allow to query workitems containing comma(,) in workitem summary

Looking at the current behaviour, a comma delimited list is inferred as an "OR", so in your case, just searching for ',' will be interpreted as "" OR "" which is everything. There is no way that query searches for summary having just the comma. Pl...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Display the label of work item attributes (if set) in error messages for Required Attributes For Type and State

When you receive an error message about a required attribute not set, the attribute name is used. This is OK if the name of the attribute and the label of the attribute are the same, but is confusing if the label has been set to something more con...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Allow to categorize comment types in Discussion so that they can be filtered

We have many work items with a lot of comments, as we have a lot of users. Some work items have more than 100 comments in them. Also, there are some system related comments. We looked at the existing RFEs for this functionality and found the below...
over 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Display read-only attributes from parent work item on child

In a project that contains a parent child relationship, it is helpful to be able to see some of the information from the parent work item as you are creating/modifying the child work item. Information would be read-only
almost 6 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Not under 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.
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Managing automatic links in work items fields

LinkDetector process let any string in work items containing keywords like 'defect 1234' or 'story 5678' to become a link towards dedicated work item. This can really be a very annoying feature when reference is unvolontary or is outside RTC perim...
over 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 4 Future consideration