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Enable email threading for EWM Work Item Emails

For active users of EWM, a significant number of work item emails are generated. Users would like emails sent by EWM to support a message ID in the email header to allow mail clients to thread the messages in their inbox.
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 4 Not under consideration

Allow "Due Date" permissions to be separated by work item type

For our processes here at Paccar, we want to restrict the due date attribute from being modified for one particular work item. There are a couple of reasons for this: "Due Date are used to create burnup chart and it’s a single measure to make sure...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Contributor search result for workitem's Owned by attribute should be restricted to those who belong to the project area

In EWM version 7.0.2,when I search contributors for Owned by attribute using the traditional search function, search result includes users who do not belong to the project area. So I can choose those users. This is not good for security because EW...
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

[EWM]: Custom color for custom group for Widget Work Item Statistics

Use case: I would like to have a pie chart to display Open vs Closed Work Items Defect with red color for Open group and green color for Closed group on the widget Work Item Statistics. Current situation: I have added a widget Work Item Statistics...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Decouple certain attributes from 'Filed Against'

We want to make changes so that moving a work item to new team area doesn’t result in permission error for anything outside of ‘filed against’. Currently, if a user tries to change the filed against on a work item, if a conflicting attribute (such...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Not under consideration

Add Copy Paste Functionality to EWM

Currently in EWM, you have to click into a work item (story, epic, etc) to copy it, you then have to reload the page (when looking through a sprint planning or PI planning view) to see the copied item show up. After this you can move the copied it...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

A particular work item query takes 15-30 seconds in EWM when a work item type has 100 custom attribute.

A particular work item query takes 15-30 seconds in EWM when a work item type has 100 custom attribute. The cause of slowness in work item query is the following 2ms( for attributes check) * 118 (attributes) * 50 row = 11800ms = 11.9 sec. Please t...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Not under consideration

In Eclipse client, change set should also be visible on the “Code Review” tab like it is on “Links” Tab.

In Eclipse client, change set should also be visible on the “Code Review” tab like it is on “Links” Tab making the code review logical. We realise that the change set information is available on the "Code Review" tab on Web client but it should al...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Not under consideration

Configure what type of files can be attached to a workitem

For security reasons, the client's security office wants to be able to limit what type of files can be attached to a work item, such as blocking files with an exe extension and then being able to configure in advanced properties the extensions tha...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Modernize External Attachment Capability Since MS has Discontinued Support on WebDav Protocol

EWM (CCM) Advanced Properties has settings to store attachments on another server or attached drive. There needs to be another way to implement storing attachments on another server other than using Microsoft's WebDave protocol, which is now disco...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Not under consideration