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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next

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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 ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 0 Future consideration

Support to select which page is shown in File preview instead of first page

Sometimes when using e.g. Word Plugins to generate flow charts, Word stores the script on first page and the actual flow chart is on second page. This is not usable for users viewing Modules: they would like to see the flow chart instead of script...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Allow the view filter to match on the same amount of text as displayed in the module view

Currently, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/engineering-lifecycle-management-suite/lifecycle-management/7.0.2?topic=requirements-filters-views "Filters on string attribute values only consider the first 449 characters. Full-text and search consider all...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Login to Jira automatically when in a module

When in a module within a view containing an attribute that has Jira links, it will be useful to automatically login to the OSLC application so that we can easily filter on this attribute. We would not be required to manually search for a Jira lin...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Allow users to select more than one module view at a time

We use the shared view feature in DOORS Next to limit the number of attributes that are exported in a module. Described here in Step 5 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/engineering-lifecycle-management-suite/lifecycle-management/7.0.2?topic=files-export...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 1 Future consideration

Filtering shall support combining conditions with 'OR'

The filter conditions in DOORS in currently combining the conditions always with the logical 'AND'.To provide sufficient filter functionality, it must be also possible to combine filter conditions with the logical 'OR'
over 6 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 11 Future consideration

Set a backgroud color of attributes depending on their value in DOORS Next requirements module.

Projects need DOORS Next to automatically set a backgroud color of attributes in their requirements module depending on conditions (attribute value). Background colors can be configured manually for each attribute.
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 0 Future consideration

Autolock artifacts when approved or peer reviewed

It would make the process more efficiency if there were a way to auto-lock the requirement artifacts when the status is changed to "approved" or peer reviewed? Scenario: - We use peer review record to go the RM review process. - We will have multi...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Allow Link By Attribute to work cross RM server in a Global Configuration

When wanting to remove OR add many RM artifact links that cross a RM server "boundary" in a Global Configuration- link by attribute would be an ideal solution. While individual links can be create manually one-at-a-time...bulk creation (or deletio...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

DOORS Next Change Set REST API needed

Need to report on the history of the requirements.The DOORS Next API allows to see all the details with the history=true parameter. The issue is that this history can grow exponentially and be very time consuming to parse.Also we want to filter ba...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Integrations 0 Future consideration