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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next

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Display attribute value in a specific color depending on condition in DOORS Next

Project need to display attribute value in a specific color depending on conditions (a value of another attribute). Example 1: consider the attribute 'Impact level': can be High, Medium, Low. I want to display text: "High" in red color, "Medium" i...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 0 Future consideration

Enforce Link Constraints when User changes Artifact Type

Enforced Link Constraints enable consistency of trace and trace reports. Link constraints are assigned to artifact types. Since a user can change an artifact type, the link constraints for the new type should be applied during the change. Should a...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

DNG review session improvements

The current requirement review interface has some deficiencies when it comes to filtering artifacts based on comments. Currently, the user must manually scroll for artifacts with the comment indicator icon. The following would be appreciated: 1. W...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Move Artifacts in a trash folder when requiring definitive deletion.

DOORS Next shall move the artifacts to a "trash folder" attached to the Project Areawhen deleting artifacts. This could offer, whew users delete artifacts by error, to be able to recover them. Then, a feature to "purge artifacts" could be added to...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 0 Future consideration

Avoid Read access to a folder and to a module to some members

In DOORS Next, everyone declared at PA or TA level has a read access to every artifacts in a Project Area. DOORS Next offers to assign ownership to a Team for a folder or at module level. This means read-write access. BUT other members (at PA leve...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow selecting up to 10 attributes behind the link in Module view

Allow selecting up to 10 attributes behind the link in Module view would be very useful when users try to see comprehensive status of the Module. Now only 5 attributes can be selected, it is not enough.
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 1 Future consideration

Undo (Crtl + z) last operation by client

While editing requirements or even doing more complex operations like multi attribute editing you might find out after the last edit, that it wasn't a good idea. Instead of simply using Crtl+Z like in e.g. MS Office Products or Mural or... you wou...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 0 Future consideration

Inserting images and arrays in richtext atributes in DOORS Next

With DOORS Next today, we can add images in the main attribute (content) of requirement artifacts because it is of richtext type. But there is no richtext type available (like in DOORS classic). Projects need to enrich their specification modules ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 0 Future consideration

Different history documentation in Change Set history and in artifact history

IBM case: TS017493161 According to the artifact history, the artifact A has been changed in the change set delivered. Ex: Verdict is cleared. In the change set history of the delivered change set the modification made is not completely described. ...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 0 Future consideration

Uploading new version of an image should lead to change in link validity

The new version of picture should invalidate the link validity and it change from valid to suspect Business Justification: This is a very common use case for us - most of our requirements have embedded images and any changes in the image must be c...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 0 Future consideration