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IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

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Link type "Affected by Defect"

Hi Team, One end of the relationship link is "Affects Plan Item" which, for instance, is used starting with a risk affecting a plan item (feature/story/etc.). Looking from the linked affected plan item, the link shows "Affected by Defect" which is...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Add a "Description" field for EWM Components in Streams

A field "Description" can be filled for a EWM stream. The demand here is to have the same: a "Description" field for components. Field modified either via the web browser, or the Eclipse client.
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Contributor search result for workitem's Owned by attribute should be restricted to those who belong to the project area

In EWM version 7.0.2,when I search contributors for Owned by attribute using the traditional search function, search result includes users who do not belong to the project area. So I can choose those users. This is not good for security because EW...
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Decouple certain attributes from 'Filed Against'

We want to make changes so that moving a work item to new team area doesn’t result in permission error for anything outside of ‘filed against’. Currently, if a user tries to change the filed against on a work item, if a conflicting attribute (such...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Not under consideration

Auto Fill Child work item attributes

Auto fill different attributes to match the parent's same attribute. For example, any stories or tasks under an epic with "Applicable Program" filled out should automatically populate the "Applicable Program" attribute at story and task level. Thi...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

Add Copy Paste Functionality to EWM

Currently in EWM, you have to click into a work item (story, epic, etc) to copy it, you then have to reload the page (when looking through a sprint planning or PI planning view) to see the copied item show up. After this you can move the copied it...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Allow ranking in a Quick Planner Work Board

Users like the flexibility of a Work Board in quick planner which allows custom lanes that are not always based on Iteration, but would also like to be able to apply ranking to the lanes as they can in the Plan Board type.
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Not under consideration

[EWM]: Custom color for custom group for Widget Work Item Statistics

Use case: I would like to have a pie chart to display Open vs Closed Work Items Defect with red color for Open group and green color for Closed group on the widget Work Item Statistics. Current situation: I have added a widget Work Item Statistics...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

improve the usability of "Replace configuration" for SCM snapshot in Global configuration

Inside a global configuration stream, to replace an SCM configuration (either with a snapshot or with a stream), the selection window does not give enough information like created by, created on. As an enhancement, please refer to the selection fo...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 3 Future consideration

Please add shortcut keys to the Engineering Workflow Management Shell

We make use of shortcut keys in the Web UI and in Eclipse, but we cannot find any for the Shell client. Engineering Workflow Management keyboard shortcuts https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/elm/7.0.3?topic=reference-engineering-workflow-management-keyboa...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Not under consideration