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My ideas: Excel & Word Import

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Simple ETM Import

DNG has a nice user-friendly import capability. ETM does not. Given the Enterprise usage and application of DNG with ETM it only sets up the user expectation to have a pleasing experience of both importing and exporting to and from DNG in a compar...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

Linking Test Script Step Results to Requirement using Excel Importer Utility

In 7.0.3 it is now possible to link test script step and requirement. 'TestScript that link steps with existing requirements 002' from sample folder for test script step and requirement linking.(v7.0.3) Usually the links from test script step Resu...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

Provide customers option to maintain the Excel spreadsheet ordering of test cases on Excel Import Only shown to the idea creator and internal users

Currently only the order of test case results are ordered when importing via Excel Importer. A decision was made to prioritise performance and make the import multi-threaded. Nevertheless, customers find this confusing and it makes it harder for t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

ETM Excel Importer allow DNG Links to propagate from Test Script to Test Case

We would like the ETM Excel Importer to support DNG requirements links propagating from the Test Script to the Test Case. If a team creates a Test Script manually in ETM and links those steps to a requirement in DNG, the result is that the link pr...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

ETM XL Import Server-side pre-checks

When users inadvertently make mistakes in excel importer configuration file or data, this results in creation of duplicate attributes and enumeration values in target ETM component type system. There are no warnings or alerts that type system is g...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

import test case , the test plan section will be deleted.

現行test case import包含指定test plan, 選擇要Import的Excel Sheet 若上述設定都正確 則可看到Test Plan 非default設定的section被刪除後加回 -> Test Plan項目回復原本內容 若Sheet錯誤 則會放先刪除後無法加回,而只剩下Default Section. 現行test case import包含指定test plan, 選擇要Import的Excel Sheet 若上述設定都正確 則可看到Test Plan ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 1 Not under consideration

Excel Importer usability improvements

The Excel Importer doesn't allow for updating of existing artifacts in an intuitive fashion. - Linking of requirements is performed from newly created Test Artifacts, unable to link from currently existing Test Artifacts - If the Importer ID is le...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

How to import Review comments and Reviewer from Excel

Want to import the Review comments and reviewer/approver name in test case from Excel
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

Excel Importer should have an option to concatenate TCER with iteration when use urn:com.ibm.rqm:testphase: as same as it can in ETM

When users want to create TCER that has name concatenated with iteration, it can be done in ETM by single check. Test Case > Generate Execution Record > Add the iteration as a suffix to execution record names But it can't be done as simply i...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

Ability to use an "RTC/EWM" like web interface to import steps in to RQM

As a consultant, I am experiencing more and more "IT Desktop lockdowns" of SW on user's Desktops. Asking for the ability to install and Excel/Word plugin for imports has not been a welcome request for "a specific type of customer". Most have denie...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration