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IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

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Mouse hover feature to preview document

Support comment: The mouse hover feature did used to work fine in the past for the EWM application (early 6.0.x releases) however, our team felt it was a security issue to have the preview shown for files such as PDFs, Excel and Word docs and as s...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

Allow users to download all files in a change set with a simple download gesture

Customers are not able to review files in the Web UI source control when they are MS Office type files such as *.docx, *.xlsx, *.pptx etc. They click on the change set link in a work item, and it takes them to source control in the Web UI showing ...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Extend ability of clm_update.py script to take additional parameters for custom context roots

Extend the ability of clm_update.py script to take additional parameters for custom context roots.
over 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Installation 2 Not under consideration

Button or feature to insert attachment file link into RTC work item HTML rich text editor

Currently, the HTML editor allows you to insert the below link types:* Links* User links* Work item links In addition to these, we would like to request a feature to insert links to attached files of the same work item. Presently, you need to manu...
over 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

To implement JSON format to get the data in a "Value Set" type script.

In our company, to integrate ELM and other data bases we are using the EWM scripts and in this scripts we call a webservice to obtain the data. Using this strategy we get the data in xml format. So, we read the xml and populate a field or list in...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

Enable Gitlab/Github flavor markdown

As a software developer, I am working with Gitlab/Github all the time and I found their version of Markdown support is way more productive than the traditional MS Word style formatting. Ever since we switched from Gitlab to EWM, all of our softwar...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 4 Future consideration

Allow @ mentioning to reference users by display name instead of user id or add a setting to choose.

When working in enterprise environments, it is not efficient to write comments and constantly have to click the "Insert User Link" button to reference a specific user.When LDAP User IDs are cryptic, and not likely to ever be memorized, it seems mo...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Improve the subset creation transaction to prevent DB2 deadlock -913 error

Customer runs nightly builds and has developed a custom headless plugin calling APIs createBuildableSubsetFromWorkItems() and modifyBuildableSubset(). When 3 builds are run concurrently and creates 3 subset workitems on a large number of componen...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Enterprise Extensions 1 Not under consideration

currently there is a way to display the output of a query in a widget and it can be grouped by status. however, if you want to group the result for more than one status and display them as one, its not possible.

It allows users the flexbiility to group based of the status
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Shortened Work Item History List

In IDz's Team Artifacts windows, Work Item History is the list of Work Item that are inserted by following events: - Creation of Work Item - Modification of Work Item - Consulted Work Item This list becomes very long if the developer consulted a l...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration