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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access

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support following external links to databases in Chromium browsers (Chrome / Edge)

When following an external link to another database using special protocols (e. g.: cdb:// ), the browser should handle the protocol and open the respective tool. This feature works in Internet Explorer and Firefox. Using Chrome or Edge, an empty ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Browser/Webserver 0 Future consideration

Function to provide OLEType and OLECount

Most of the Doors Modules contains an OLE in the object text, fortunately we can only check whether object contains OLE or not but no option to findout the type of th OLE for ex: word, excel, pdf, paint, jpeg, png etc If you could introduce a func...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / OLE 0 Future consideration

In the AddAccess dialogue, do not display user names together with group names by default.

Large organisations with hundreds or thousands of users and groups often manage access controls through groups. Displaying all the users together with all the groups in the 'Add Access' dialogue by default, is often not necessary and creates consi...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Access Controls 0 Future consideration

Make the 'Add Access' dialogue accept the selection and acting upon of multiple Groups/Users at once

This provides the ability to add/edit/remove several groups/users to/from the Item at the time and helps a lot (!) for many access right operations on the item (object, module, project, folder). Currently the dialogue only allows selecting and act...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Access Controls 0 Future consideration

Make the 'Add Access' dialogue window resizeable to allow displaying Group or User names that are longer than the width of the default dialogue window size.

Items (objects, modules, projects, folders and others) in DOORS 9 client, have a properties - access panel, which has an 'add access' button. The 'Add Access' dialogue behind it, is of fixed size, which can lead to overly long group and usernames ...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Access Controls 0 Future consideration

In Word to DOORS export, add document structure management similar to RTF import in DOORS.

The current Word VBA to DOORS import addon is lacking behind the feature scope of the RTF importer in DOORS client. See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/engineering-lifecycle-management-suite/doors/9.7.2?topic=modules-importing-rich-text-format-files ....
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Export 1 Future consideration

For Word to DOORS export, remove the dependency on OLE host applications during export.

Currently OLEs inside Word documents that are to be exported to DOORS 9, are being activated as their content is carried over to DOORS 9, where they are inserted as OLEs again. This makes it necessary for the relevant host application to be instal...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / OLE 0 Future consideration

Implement the Word to DOORS export in a modern OOXML format (dotm) and retire the doors.dot format

The 'classic' Microsoft Office Word template files in the *.dot format are increasingly being blocked in organisations for security reasons. An implementation of the Word to DOORS export in the modern OOXML template with macros file format (dotm) ...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Export 1 Future consideration

Provide logging that captures Access Rights changes

This is a regular request from customers. This customer is particularly interested in access rights changes made to Groups. There is no way to track who has made changes at the moment.
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / History/Audit 0 Future consideration

Similar to "Disable Logins" database login property, provide a "Disable Editing" to override all ordinary access controls when activated, until deactivated, when previous ordinary access controls are taking effect again.

Various tasks in the domain of administering a DOORS 9 database (server) may require to switch a database to read-only outside the ordinary access control management workflow. Be it to freeze a specific state of the database / projects / modules o...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Access Controls 1 Future consideration

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