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IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

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Make custom text attributes modifiable in a plan view

Currently it is possible to edit some attributes directly in a plan view, e.g. enum attributes but also the summary of a work item. Unfortunately it is not supported to edit text attributes directly in this view. Especially for attributes with sma...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Not under consideration

Please provide a feature that query work items by selecting tags from check box in Team Concert.

We need a feature that query tags by selecting check box in query condition editor.Currently, there is no such feature in Rational Team Concert.However, JIRA has a such feature. Check box user interface is very helpful when user wants to query wor...
about 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 4 Not under consideration

History of a function, method or code block

Today we can see the history of a file. But we would like to be able to see the history of a part of this file, like functions, methods or code blocks.
about 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 7 Not under consideration

Honor schedule dependencies between parent tasks

Anyone who is used to traditional or MS project style scheduling.
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

The customer suggests that EWM show more friendly user messages on Engineering Workflow Management source control.

The customer suggests that EWM show more friendly user messages on Engineering Workflow Management source control, for example, on the Subcommand exit codes (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/elm/7.0.2?topic=reference-subcommand-exit-codes), we can see ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Build 1 Not under consideration

Please make the ranking of work items available in API (either REST or OSLC)

Customers find the ranking of work items in planning an important piece of information. They hope to obtain it in different ways. Unfortunately, outside of displaying plans directly, it is not possible to obtain this information. And there is almo...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / API 1 Not under consideration

Workitem should have an attribute and retrieve the stream names

We are looking to have a support in workitem where user can indicate the target branch name/stream name for code implementation. Initially we need to have a field where user can select related Workitem source control: EWM or GitHub. Then another f...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Cannot query if any work item is set or no workitem is set in work item lists

In queries on the work item list type attribute there are three options. Includes xxx work item. (Containing)Does not include xxx work item. (Not Containing)Does the attribute exist on the work item. (Exists) Unfortunately these options are not ve...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Attribute of type Large/Medium HTML does not render correctly in a plan view (shows as n/a)

What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Add a custom attribute of type "Large HTML" to a workitem type (and update editors etc) 2. Add the attribute to the "Plan Attributes" 3. Create a workitem and add a value for the attribute created at step ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Action to copy attribute values from one work item to another

There are scenarios where work items are closely related to each other, because one work item is copied from another. A use case is e.g. Branch handling - duplicated defects to track implementation on different branches (backport fixes, multiple v...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Not under consideration