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Combine User Attributes

Nicholas Perry

If a user has multiple roles on a request status in a life-cycle they are only able to view/update attributes for 1 role at a time, which requires them to update the attributes for 1 role, save then re-open the request and change the role section to the…
- 2 months ago
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Less Cryptic Error Messages

Nicholas Perry

Currently the Webclient displays error messages that our users do not understand for example if a user does not complete a mandatory attribute the error message would display the database name of the attribute not the User Prompt. Could error messages…
- 2 months ago
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Clone a Request, with/without attributes, with/without related Items/Requests

Karim Haggouchi

In our organization, we manage a quite high volume of requests (about 3000 per year). Each request has to be created manually, usually by populating several attributes (up to 10 or 20), and sometimes by recording complex relationships between the Request…
- 2 months ago
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Web client: Image of the lifecycle highlighting the current status of a Request (or an Item)

Karim Haggouchi

In our organization, we have numerous (21 actually) and fairly complex Request lifecycles, and it's often not easy for a user to remember by heart the different statuses and transition rules, or to fully understand where they are in the lifecycle and…
- 2 months ago
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Web client: Search field above attribute column to filter results on Request or Item views

Karim Haggouchi

The web client is currently limited when it comes to searching for values in an attribute column: values are sorted alphabetically and the sorting can be either descending or ascending. This may be appropriate if there are only a few requests in the Inbox…
- 2 months ago
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Web Client: Select Requests or Items attributes to view by drag-and-drop

Karim Haggouchi

Web cleint: At present, it is not very intuitive to customize columns to view lists of Requests or Items. The user has to open the Preferences, open the “area to customize” - which is quite long - understand that the relevant area is the “Requests table…
- 2 months ago
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Enable correlation of values between two attributes not being part of a hierarchical valid set

Karim Haggouchi

Currently, the only way to correlate two attribute values when creating a request is for them to be part of a hierarchical valid set: selecting a value for attribute_1 will filter out values for attribute_2. The proposed enhancement consists in enabling…
- 2 months ago
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Distinguish attributes having the same prompt on searching, filtering and reporting

Karim Haggouchi

Searching, filtering and reporting on requests or items: 1) It can be rather difficult to build a query on attributes, as it requires selecting prompts , while sometimes two attributes have the same or very similar prompts. It would therefore be useful…
- 2 months ago
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Enable searching, filtering and reporting across products and across request/item types, on USER attributes

Karim Haggouchi

Currently, searching, filtering and reporting on USER attributes is rather limited: it is only possible for a given product or a given request type, whereas many users need to obtain results for several products or for different request types (or even…
- 2 months ago
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Custom attribute reporting

Andrei Marcu

It would be useful to have the possible to enable this customized item attributes for reporting For example when you have have some customized item attributes e.g. “Atribute1” or "atribute2". and you want to define a report with some selected attributes…
- 3 months ago
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Dimensions needs comprehensive Error Code documentation

Joshua Trosclair

If you ever came across a Dimensions CM error code such as COR0005654E, and couldn't find help with OpenText KB articles, Online CM documentation, or your favorite AI, then this enhancement/IDEA request involves you. Please enhance the Dimensions CM…
- 4 months ago
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better request/item filtering in dimensions

Joshua Trosclair

The dimensions website filtering system could be improved by adopting a few filtering ideas from the Dimensions RM product. Here are the main tenets: 1.) There is a collapsible set of filters which are minimized by default. 2.) There are several sections…
- 5 months ago
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Requesting way to link Azure DevOps (ADO) work items (e.g., user stories, bugs) to items managed in Dimensions repository

Lisa Cowley

ADO has become very popular for software configuration management, but it does not have a good way to manage documentation. Dimensions does an excellent job of controlling the documentation, but we would like to use the ADO work items/story board to manage…
- 8 months ago
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No-install CM web client tools?

Joshua Trosclair

Can the Dimensions CM Web Client Tools client be configured to work without having to be installed? There are an increasing number of end-user machines these days which do not allow any software installations, meaning they cannot download or upload…
- 9 months ago
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While creating new item, error message should be displayed if the Product Name used for creating the new item is different than the Product Name used by the user

Hermen Yau

While creating new items, if the displayed Project/Product (displayed in the middle part of the UI) and the Product/Product (displayed at bottom part of the display) used by the user are different, error message should be displayed. Otherwise, the item…
- 10 months ago
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Dimensions CM error manual

Francisco josé Gallego

It would be great to have a Dimensions CM manual error explaining in more detail the errors, the cause and the action to take if possible). Many errors are quite cryptic, shorts and scarces. Egoistically for them (OpenText Support), it would save incident…
- over 1 year ago
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Requests are automatically repended when new users are added

Nick Woollett

Requests are not automatically repended when new users are added. Currently this is the behaviour of Dimensions, meaning when a new user is added with the correct roles the person is unable to work against Requests (as they are not pending) unless a…
- over 1 year ago
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We need to decrease the default session_timeout value "3600" of listener.dat of Dimensions 14.5.3, 14.6 and future versions.

systex systex

Hi All, https://knowledgebase.serena.com/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=S141609 -session_timeout Default 3600 at installation Minimum 3600 (1 hour) According to the above URL of knowledge base, we realize that session_timeout value is the key…
- over 1 year ago
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If Dimension CM can add function for customized timeout (like less than 30 mins) setting in future release.

systex systex

Hi All, If Dimension CM can add function for customized timeout (like less than 30 mins) setting in future release. We need the customized timeout function can be added to Dimensions CM Web and Dimensions CM admin console. Thanks! SYSTEX
- over 1 year ago
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We recommend providing Dimensions upgrade installation kits in the future.

systex systex

Hi All, In light of our experiences about upgrading Dimensions CM from earlier versions to the latest versions. Especially upgrades between generations, such as upgrading from 14.3 to 14.5.3. We need to perform tedious upgrade steps, and it take so…
- over 1 year ago
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Add Filtering by Name to the Deployment / History tab.

Chandrasekhar Oruganty

Currently, the filtering drop-down box has Event Type, Title/Description but doesn't have Name. Either provide filtering criteria by name or Provide sort by any column that is displayed in the table. This will allow the users to export only the particular…
- over 1 year ago
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Update DOORS --> Dimensions Integration

Nicholas Perry

Update DOORS --> Dimensions Integration to allow use with DOORS versions greater than 9.6.1
- over 1 year ago
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Prevent the user to check in files when File size not more than XXXMB

RAMASAMY BHARATHARUN

Hi Team, It would be great if dimensions CM have an option to Prevent the user to check in files when File size not more than XXXMB! Thanks, Arun.
- over 2 years ago
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Add Item - needs better error message when folder selected

Joshua Trosclair

Dimensions CM should tell CM Desktop users that Add Item does not support multi-file uploads. (I haven't checked if web client tools has the same behavior - it might) The replacement message I propose could be similar to the following: "Please select…
- over 2 years ago
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DMCL command or web service to cancel a running build job

Merlin Ho

I having been using ALF event from SBM to integrate with Dimensions CM for a couple of months. Recently, I was asked to cancel a running build job of Dimensions from SBM when the job was running. However, after consult to the support team, I was told…
- over 2 years ago
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Combine User Attributes

Less Cryptic Error Messages

Clone a Request, with/without attributes, with/without related Items/Requests

Web client: Image of the lifecycle highlighting the current status of a Request (or an Item)

Web client: Search field above attribute column to filter results on Request or Item views

Web Client: Select Requests or Items attributes to view by drag-and-drop

Enable correlation of values between two attributes not being part of a hierarchical valid set

Distinguish attributes having the same prompt on searching, filtering and reporting

Enable searching, filtering and reporting across products and across request/item types, on USER attributes

Custom attribute reporting

Dimensions needs comprehensive Error Code documentation

better request/item filtering in dimensions

Requesting way to link Azure DevOps (ADO) work items (e.g., user stories, bugs) to items managed in Dimensions repository

No-install CM web client tools?

While creating new item, error message should be displayed if the Product Name used for creating the new item is different than the Product Name used by the user

Dimensions CM error manual

Requests are automatically repended when new users are added

We need to decrease the default session_timeout value "3600" of listener.dat of Dimensions 14.5.3, 14.6 and future versions.

If Dimension CM can add function for customized timeout (like less than 30 mins) setting in future release.

We recommend providing Dimensions upgrade installation kits in the future.

Add Filtering by Name to the Deployment / History tab.

Update DOORS --> Dimensions Integration

Prevent the user to check in files when File size not more than XXXMB

Add Item - needs better error message when folder selected

DMCL command or web service to cancel a running build job

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