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The client need to keep a history of work items deletion.

The client sometimes need to delete unwanted Work Items. But, there is not viewer or history to trace work item's deletion. Having a history would be a great idea for security purpose too.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Paging the huge set of links as it affect the work items performance

The work items with huge set of links should be paged when there are more then X Links (for example X=10) as it takes more than 30 sec. to load
over 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Not under consideration

Enable copying of custom attributes and linktypes when using "Copy Work Item"

when copying a work item, different attributes can be selected to be copied as well. This list needs to include custom attributes and linktypes (custom and otherwise). In a hierarchy of items (eg. user stories -> epic) our users frequently copy...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Work Item Query not Showing all Child workitems linked to the Parent

What steps will reproduce the problem?1. Create a Story Workitem2. Create atleast more than 10 child workitems linked to Story3.Create a EWM Query to display the results in a Query What is the expected output? I should have an option to 'View all'...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Organize and maintain links and attachments separately based on the context in work item

If a work item has several links and attachments, it should be possible to organize them for improved readability. By using additional link sections, user should be able to organize links and attachments in specific link tabs (sections). Currently...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

Provide a file chooser widget in work items to choose a file path

We often wish to record the path to a file in work items, but there is no attribute for that. The Attachments non-attribute-based presentation actually uploads a file, but we don't want to do that -- just obtain the path. This would be a big time ...
12 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Not under consideration

Make the modification of a plan rank visible in the changed work item

We use a product backlog plan for prioritization of our work items via ranks. To keep this process transparent and comprehensible we would like to trace changes of the work item rank e.g. within the work item history. Currently we see that the cha...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

Please provided user-friendly message when clicking a link to deleted attachment on history tab a work item.

Please provided user-friendly message when clicking a link to deleted attachment on a work item. When clicking the link for a deleted attachment in history tab, the following message shows up. Error 500: Encountered invalid request This is conf...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Improve CSV import so that ELM URI links form back links​ from DNG artifacts to RTC work items

We are able to export CSV from Eclipse and edit the output to add new URI type links. When we import that CSV, URI links are created in the RTC work items to the DNG artifacts, but no back links are generated. We would like for back links to be ge...
about 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Multiple Approvals Functionality

Multiple Approvals Functionality: We have a use-case where Approvals functionality is required for multiple states in a single work item. When we try to achieve this requirement, the application is considering the requirement for the first iterati...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Future consideration