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Need option for when duplicating a Work Items with different severities

* EWM version: All version * Background info: In EWM will automatically set the severity of a duplicated work item to the severity of the duplicate work item if the duplicate work item's severity is "higher". And also Subscriber information will a...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Not under consideration

Add autocomplete for @ mentions in a work item

Similar to the autocomplete of @ mentions in QuickPlanner, users woud like the ability to @ mention someone in the Work Item description or comments/discussion and have the option to autocomplete the user inline. This would improve usability and e...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

Only run custom value providers on user specified dependencies

In setting up a customized value provider with a javascript based solution, you also define a list of dependencies (attributes) on the attribute for which a value is being calculated or validated by the value provider. It was discovered that in on...
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

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 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 4 Not under consideration

Option to restrict users form replying to existing comments when workitem is in closed state

We are using a project area to capture work done in a compliance department. Since it is for this purpose the WI are treated as non-modifiable in "closed" state. Hence request an option to enable/disable the option to reply to an existing comment....
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Feature "Move or Copy this Work Item to Another Project Area" copies the Work Item including the "comments" field.

We’ve noticed that when using the "Move or Copy this Work Item to Another Project Area" feature, the comments field is always copied along with the Work Item. While this may be useful in some cases, it doesn’t offer flexibility to users who may no...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Prevent date type field to allow saving years with 3 digits. - Design Defect

Using IBM EWM, users can save date and time fields where the year contains only three digits. (e.g., changing 2025 to 202), the system still allows saving the work item. This results in an invalid date being stored. Steps to ReproduceOpen a work i...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Enable rich text formatting in work item comments/discussion

While the rich text capability in HTML fields and work item description have been enhanced, the Comments/Discussion do not have the same capabilities. Additional rich text is needed for Comments to allow clearer communication within work items.
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

The right panel in the Query view of EWM web client is sometimes hidden, and the button to deploy it is not visible.

Today I faced an issue with a user who couldn't see his queries. In fact the right panel was hidden.To reproduce this issue :- I opened the "shared queries" page in EWM web client in full screen using a big screen (24 in.) and moved the panel sepa...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Idea here is to increase the limit/increase the number of the results from global searches.

In the RTC project area, when performing a keyword search using the search bar, only the first 100 results are displayed, even though the system indicates that there are a total of 756 matching items. The objective is to explore whether it's possi...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration