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Provide editing function for EWM Work Item Templates

Currently a template in RTC to be used via the "Create from Template..." function is not editable after creation. Request: Please implement or specify a way to edit these templates after creation, without the necessity to be deleted by an administ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Ability to prevent Team Member from removing an Approval on a Work Item

Requesting the ability to Prevent teammate (colleagues with identical Team Member role) from removing the Approver after the Approval has been added to the workitem and saved. Detailed Use Cases are provided. Our development team has looked at how...
about 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under 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...
11 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...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Approval Trackings - Set a workflow action when working multiple approvals type

In EWM, using Approval Trackings, it's possible to define how an approval state change can trigger a workflow action. That works fine when we have only one approval type but not with multiple approvals. When working with multiple approvals, we hav...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Future consideration

Ability to query EWM Code Review with status "abandoned"

We have deployed the Code Review tool inline with documentation guidance from IBM. Our developers would like to query work items with code review status "abandon". However in EWM documentation below it is missing to mention about "abandon" code re...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Drag and drop from Microsoft Outlook to CLM

Drag and drop from Outlook does not work. You always have to save the mail (or doc) first. Can this be improved?
over 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

The Default Value and Unassigned Value of the Multi select values shall behave similar to a single select Enum

The current behavior appears to be a design mistake. It does not assign the unassigned value and also does not force user to select some valid value
12 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration