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Add "Primary Text" to Format Link Display Column

Need to see the linked requirements actual requirements text, not just the name of the requirement in views. It is possible to click on every requirement, but it takes a lot of time. Make it possible to select how to display linked requirements. S...
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 1 Not under consideration

when merging between streams add a button to ignore all dependencies instead of having to select each one independently

When you are adding a new requirement to a stream and deliver it to another stream there could be many dependent change sets sometimes I have seen up ward of 40 dependencies. Today I have to check the ignore box 40 times paging through several pag...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Provide a Filter by Link Validity

Provide a filter on the Link Validity column to be able to select all "Suspect links"/"Valid Links"/Invalid Links". At the moment in order to find for example suspect links we can do it only by searching for them manually.
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 2 Future consideration

Progress needs to be seen on Excel/CSV exports

Progress bar needs to be seen on Excel/CSV exports.Currently, no progress to be seen, if CSV fails or does not complete, we are none the wiser.Basic Usability topic. Request: Progress bar
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

"Create Link" Window - Improvement Request

For improved handling of "Create Link" window there are following requests to IBM- create link window can not be resized, longer requirements texts are not readable because it is not possible to change the size of the pop up window- In "select art...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Project option: "No text font" all requirements will be written as plain text.

Having this option on, will make all printouts look so much better, no jumping fonts, due to copy paste from different sources. Today it takes a lot of effort to check all text so they are "plain" and will get the desired font of the report. Now t...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Change Set Compare function should use the GC Configuration when looking at outward links to populate what it is linked to rather than say that it is not in the current configuration.

When using DOORS in configuration manage mode and you link between components it is not possible to see in a changeset where your outgoing links go to because the deliver and compare functions DON'T use the GC to enable to see what is at the other...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Add Merge attributes functionality to Change Set delivery and and Edit Attributes from View

When delivering Change Set, it is possible to merge Content of Artifacts so that user can select if CS keeps Source or Target or can merge from both. With attributes there is no such feature, it either keeps Target or Source. Especially this is is...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Edit format of main artifact content from export/import without need of modifying the text itself, just format

After discussing with IBM team, we reached to the conclusion that Doors Next requirements Management supports updating requirements format made with an export to *.xlsx file, updating the content and format and re-importing back to DNG However, it...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Resizing of inserted artifacts in order to see better the added information

When we are working with requirements, if we insert artifact 1 within artifact 2, artifact 1 is very small and it is hard to see the details (see Inserted artifact.png). If there could be any way to resize the inserted artifact 1 (image, diagram f...
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Not under consideration