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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next

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Inhibit Remove of artifacts with child artifacts

While processing Modules and hierarchy it would be extremely valuable to inhibit removal of artifacts with child artifacts. Currently, it is possible to remove complete chapters by removing headlines. Recovering removed artifacts is not a problem,...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

DOORS Next: Configuration of E-Mail Attributes for Comments on Artifacts

Current: At the moment an e-mail of a comment (discussion) looks like this: Subject: [ArtfaktType 123456] Artfiakt-Name-up-to-256-chars-or-advanced-setting-in-doorsnext-hiher-then-256-chars E-Mail: User-Name + again the Artifact-Name \n Comment-su...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Enhanced Link Explorer

Link Explorer is one directional dilsplay in default. It's better that have two directional display for seeing upper requirement and lower requirement relation immidiately. Please see the attached file. It's good for users to be able to change dis...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Change "modified date" field when the artifact is delivered, or add a new "delivered date" field

Hello, The main purpose of this idea is to make the oslc query "oslc.where=dcterms:modified>=<<your_date>>^^xsd:datetime" more useful. I think the main usage of this query is to find the artifacts that were modified recently, or the...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 2 Future consideration

Implement feature to configure customized length of fields in ERM Rich Hover Pop-Ups

Hi Team, We have received requirement from ELM users that they want to customize the length of fields which is displayed in the pop-up windows when pointing the mouse on any Artifact ID in ERM. They want to display more than the default characters...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

The default selection for the Comments priority shall be configurable by admin and/or user.

We have to write a lot of Comments that are High Priority, because any comment is usually for a Requirement that needs attention. It's easier to have the Comment default to High Priority. It would be nice to have the ability to change this at the ...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Undo Function

An Undo Function similar to CTRL-Z in Office Applications is requested. Missing undo functionality for recent edit steps, especially for unintentional changes by “clicking and typing somewhere” in the req. definition or in another attribute in com...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Include attributes behind the link to Excel Export from View

When Artifact has Link to another Artifact, it is possible to define up to 5 attributes behind the Linked artifact be visible in the View. If user saves the selections as View, and makes Excel Export, the attributes behind the link are not in the ...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Evolve link types constraints in DOORS NEXT to configure link types between modules names

In DOORS Classic, for a specific module (named by its name), it is possible to define the authorized links to another module (by its name). Goal: configure link constraints for the users to avoid errors.UseCase in DOORS Classic: right click on a m...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 0 Future consideration

Audit trail for deleted artifacts

Deleted artifacts are gone with no trace they existed. Project History should log deletes, including ID, Name, user, and time of delete. This allows the distinction between artifacts that cannot be found vs artifacts deleted.
over 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 4 Not under consideration