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Establish a field like the discussion field also for other elements like review comments

The discussion field is used to document user entries with a specific time stamp. This functionality is also helpful for other use cases, e.g. to store review findings or something else. But unfortunately the discussion field can only be used once...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Future consideration

Query to retrieve work items where a specific user is not added as approver

We try to get all the work items where a particular user is not added as Approver by creating a query with the conditions as attached. The query has below AND conditions : Status is xxxType is workitemtypeApprovals>Approver>Email> doesnot...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Allow Integer type to accept 'null'/blank value

Requesting the ability to set the Default Value in the Attribute Customization area of the eclipse client of any attribute that has an "Integer" type to accept a 'null'/blank value. This will greatly improve our queries and reporting to allow the ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Any of the following actions can cause invalid links:--> changes as mentioned below should cause in minimum a warning to the

Any of the following actions can cause links from plans or work items to versioned artifacts to become invalid:--> changes as mentioned below should cause in minimum a warning to the user to check for the right version of linked artifacts.The a...
over 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Future consideration

Work Item Reporting in Streams

When sorting Outgoing Work Items in a RTC Stream, there is no further way to filter or report on the Work Items in the Stream. At the time of writing it seems this functionality is limited to Change Sets.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 0 Future consideration

Restriction to user from downloading Work Item's attachment

Work Item has facility to upload the file as an attachment (e.g. txt, pdf, word document, etc.), which contains the most important information of the organization. In order to ensure the data security it is necessary that the attachments should be...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

In eclipse it shall be possible to link from a query result (several marked files) via context menu “Link to Work Item…” via a “contribute to” or “tracks”-link to another work-item

Tool : Eclipse when I right clicked on a work item and clicked on “Link to work items” a list of link types was displayed. The list doesn’t contain “add Tracks” and “add Contributes to” link types. In comparison with the web UI functionality for t...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Allow risk matrix to use configurable (and not only fixed) attribute IDs as input values

The risk matrix is currently only capable to handle two attributes (probability, severity) with fixed IDs Modify the Risk Matrix so that it does not use a hard coded attributes and could instead use one created by the user. Useful in case of user ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Links which are based on an Workflow-Item-Attribute must not be allowed when the WF-Item doesn't contains this attribute

For example, the WF-Item "Task" doesn't contain the Attribute "Found In". But it is possible to create a link "Affects Requirement" out of a Task, which is based on the Found In attribute. In this case the link points to a version artifact which i...
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Modify the copy work item functionality to allow copying the 'Subscribers' attribute

Modify the copy work item functionality so that users have the option to include copying over the 'Subscribers' attribute.
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration