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Provide a feature about an option to change default behavior of embedded resources as minimizing / maximizing in each artifacts in a module

Provide a feature about an option to change default behavior of embedded/wrapped resources for minimizing / maximizing in each artifacts in a module. Embedded/wrapped resources are displayed as maximized when opening a module.It takes a lot of tim...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Add capability to customize review emails

Add capability within the tool to customize who gets notifications for a given review and what the notifications are. Currently emails are sent to the review creator, we'd like to be able to add people to the list for a given review of who should ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Primary text functionality and mapping is not clear

Primary Text functionality and mapping needs to be clear. Currently for Requirements artifact, we use "Title" for "Requirement Name", and "Description" for "Requirement Description". So the use of "Primary Text" is not clear. To make the situation...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Possibility to disable access to "Edit Module" button for users who can modify modules

Currently, in Doors NG, it is impossible to disable access to "Edit Module" button for users which are authorized to work in this module.Sadly, when a user click on "Edit Module" button, this module becomes lock for all others users.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Not under consideration

DN - filter for "limit lifecycle status" can not be applied in linked artifacts

When applying a filter for linked artifacts I am not able to add another filter for existing OSLC links like "limit lifecycle status". This will be mandatory to be able to use e.g. the connection to workflow items for release assignment. Use case:...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

We need a Find and Replace All that works in one instance, not one-by-one processing

This was an RFE back in Feb. 2017 (RFE 113153). It was closed in April 2021 and not added as a planned work item. After discussing a defect with the Find/Replace with IBM support in an open case, the issue of having to click on the Replace button ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Enable Filtering in Views from Attributes of Linked Artifacts

We would like to be able to filter a view in the UI based on a value (or portion) of a linked artifact. Sorting would also be nice. The importance of this is that it's apparently possible in DOORS 9.6 & we keep getting bludgeoned by DOORS fans...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

DNG multiselection shall be kept after a modification

When selecting multiple artifacts and doing a bulk change the selection is unselected after the change is done. So for doing another bulk change all the requirements have to be selected again.Please change so that multiselection is kept after one ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

DOORS Next should give the possibility to easily switch to existing open Change Set

Hello, Use-case: the user is using GC configuration or LC configuration and wants to update a DN artifact Expectation: if there is already an open Change set (info already available as warning), there should be also the option to switch to the exi...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

No restriction of characters on filtering on string attributes of custom attributes in DOORS Next

Current situation: When using a full text filter or a string attribute filter in modules, then the filter will only take into account the first 512 characters of the string attribute. This behaviour is only true for custom attributes, not for the ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 5 Future consideration