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Advanced logging of Work Item and Work Item Attachments accessed by users of the system

The GE Aerospace team has been required by the UK Government to provide individual access proof of Work Items in the Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) application. This is a Compliance requirement to be able to demonstrate that exports of info...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 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 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

Bulk-copy/move of Work Items

In the same way that it is possible to copy/move a work item, it would be very useful to be able to do it for several. In fact, exporting/importing via Excel does not allow to keep the formatting of texts. It is very tedious to copy the work items...
30 days 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...
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Bulk Move Work Items between Project Areas

IBM Engineering Workflow Management should allow bulk migration of work items between different project areas. This feature is available via API, which is officially unsupported.
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

EWM comments are not editable ,the need is to make it editable

EWM comments are not editable ,the need is to make it editable Any changes in the comments cannot be done, but the user have to add a new comment
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 4 Future consideration

Code Review status dependency on Work Item status

Why is it useful? Effective EWM v7.x: Ø the Code Review Tool doesn’t leverage the work item’s lifecycle status or its approval mechanism like it did with the older RTC v6.x. Ø the Code Review Tool has its own in-built independent approval mechanis...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Link type "Affected by Defect"

Hi Team, One end of the relationship link is "Affects Plan Item" which, for instance, is used starting with a risk affecting a plan item (feature/story/etc.). Looking from the linked affected plan item, the link shows "Affected by Defect" which is...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Auto Fill Child work item attributes

Auto fill different attributes to match the parent's same attribute. For example, any stories or tasks under an epic with "Applicable Program" filled out should automatically populate the "Applicable Program" attribute at story and task level. Thi...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

Create a way to share a query without allowing the recipients to modify it.

Currently, in RTC, if you share a query with another user, that user has the ability to modify the query. There are certain instances where we don't want to allow this behavior. We would like the ability to share a query with a set of users, and a...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration