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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next

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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

Define validation rules for attributes / data types

Validation rules contribute to the requirement quality by ensuring that requirement attributes are filled out correctly and consistent. There are several possibilites to enrich the validation possibilites in Doors Next (right now only boundaries f...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 0 Future consideration

Define required attributes for specified type + workflow state for an artifact type

Analogous to IBM EWM (Precondition: Required value for type and state) it would be very useful if there is a possibility to create rules to ensure that if the artifact reaches a specific state in a workflow, a value for an attribute is set by the ...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 0 Future 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

Add Capability to Create and Manage Access Groups for Permissions Management in DOORS Next

Managing individual users in the tool can be quite cumbersome for large organizations and teams.
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Administration 2 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

Possibility to do a precise search with the "Find" functionality

Is there no mean to do a precise search with the "Find" functionality, that is to say, do a search on a "word" and have only results with the entire "word" and not results where "word" is just a part of a biggest word.
about 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 3 Not under consideration

Undeliver last Change Set

Undelivering Changesets not possible in Doors Next, only Discard before Delivering possible. Use Case1: A user is making some changes and delivers the CS. After the CS delivery, the user realizes that the changes done are incorrect/ unwanted. The ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 0 Future consideration

Workflow State Mandatory Fields

From my point of view at least the file "Contents" as a headline or summary should be mandatory from the initial state of a Stakeholder Request on.At the moment it is possible to created SRs without providing any information (empty artifact)Reques...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Administration 0 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