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IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

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Increase size of upload area for attachments

The size of the drag & drop section to upload attachments for a workitem has decreased in size in > v. 7.0 which is confusing to users, especially since there is no error message in case of a miss.
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

Include custom attributes in work item REST API under itemHistory

Customers wish to analyse work item history of specific attributes, including the work item history of custom attributes.The Reportable REST API allows to display the current value of custom attributes, but only built-in values appear in history.P...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / API 1 Future consideration

A column which shows the end date of an iteration in a plan is needed

A discipline should plan their Realize WIs (e.g. PADITs) according to the need of the parent ChM or PADIT Item (e.g. Feature Request)For the planning, the discipline team (e.g. SW MMI) uses a plan (e.g. Sprint Backlog). In this plan theIteration n...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 4 Future consideration

Possibility to disable mail generation on CSV import

It should be possible to disable mail generation on CSV import done on the WebUI. Each Work Item is processed for Mail generation. This is also the case when the User has disabled all Mail rules in his profile. Importing thousands of Work Item e...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Possibility to disable automatic subscription on Work Items during CSV Import

It should be possible to disable the automatic subscription of the user who does a CSV import on the WebUI in EWM. When someone imports thousands of Work Items, he is automatically subscribed on each Work Item and will get Emails for any changes ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Integrate any and all Git commits, regardless of the length of the commit message

Commit messages hold absolutely useful information and should never be limited characterwise. Additionally EWM administration has no control over the length of commit messages and possibly hasn't even got the possibility to contact the user base u...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Integrations 1 Future consideration

Plan and Work Board: Ability to inherit the Board Definitions (template) through the process sharing. With an option to Final (ignore customization of this data in child project areas)

It will help the transformation of the teams and maintain the uniform templates for all. Which is a neccessity for large organizations.
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Future consideration

Plan and Work Board shall allow users to select the Filed Against and Iteration from one place when the Board is created or edited

Today we will have to edit each of the swimlane which is time consuming and inconvenient to the users.
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Future consideration

Ability to add "DNG" - type custom links in to RTC for use with NON-SCM artifacts

EWM gives you the ability to create custom work items...great! However if I have something like (Defect, Task, Support Ticket, Enhancement, Documentation Task) I want to be able to create a and track a Defect and a custom "Documentation Link" or "...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Plan snapshots should be based on plans, not plan views

Currently, if you have Fetch Children on Demand selected, comparing the plan with a snapshot results in all the unfetched items to be reported as removed. This is counterintuitive, and it's effectively mixing the data layer (i.e. the plan) with th...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Future consideration