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IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

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Plan and Work Board: The Group by shall be extendable to custom attributes in the swim lanes

The grouping the cards in the swimlane is widely asked for as its also being used in the Plans. Its the basic needs to roll out the quick planners.
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 2 Future consideration

Plan and Work Board : Ability to configure required attributes (including custom) in the card

Today it only displays the basic out of the box attributes, which is not so useful as based upon the process there are several custom attributes which are mandatory during the creation of the work items as as well during the planning.
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Future consideration

Not able to change the Editor presentation layout/display on selection of any custom field

To match with What JIRA offers and achive the ability to show hide attributes as per the role.
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Use an editor representation that simply shows the hours or the unit which has been selected when entering the value, but no random combination of arbitrary, not well-defined units.

"Time Estimate" and "Time Spend" are represented in the work item editor in an awkward format. Even specified in hours, it's represented in "days" and "weeks" depending on the value of hours entered. But weeks and days are no precise units and for...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Separate Operation in RTC Process template to modify "Workitem Templates"

Current State: In Process template of RTC-CHM Project Area, “Modify Process Specifications” includes Changes to role definitions, permissions assigned to roles, operation behavior (preconditions and follow-up actions), iterations, configuration da...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

Improve filtering of Pending Changes View in EWM 7

Our team uses RTC/EWM for our software change management. We have since many years a well established procedure for delivering changes for our 200+ developers. The procedure is based on using the Pending Changes View in RTC 4. 5, and 6 (in RAD).Be...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 5 Future consideration

Create keywords to filled in automatically fields such as Author, Project Area, baseline, etc. when delivering change sets or downloading files

We need the ability to automatically fill in fields in files, such as: Author or last modifier Project Area Baseline: when applies etc. When a change set is checked-in or delivered, or when the files are downloaded using, for example, scm commands...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 4 Future consideration

Limit the number of users in a Contributor List attribute

It would be perfect for us that IBM creates a property in order to limit the number of users to add in that attribute. For example, If I need to add a maximum of 5 people, it would be perfect to have a property that limits it and prevents someone ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Enable Gitlab/Github flavor markdown

As a software developer, I am working with Gitlab/Github all the time and I found their version of Markdown support is way more productive than the traditional MS Word style formatting. Ever since we switched from Gitlab to EWM, all of our softwar...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

Configuring table as a work item attribute in RTC

There should be a ready-to-use, more user friendly way to represent table as a work item attribute. Currently, table can be created using wiki attribute. This expects users to be aware of the Wiki syntax. An XML or HTML like syntax will be more en...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Future consideration