Review: Related items - show/hide related items, hover not click and rich text

Gavin Ryan-Keenor
Gavin Ryan-Keenor Business Analyst
Hi,
A few improvements we would appreciate being added to the reading view when related items are to be included in a review:
  1. The ability to 'show/hide all related items' so users did not have to click on the 'Show related items' for every item. We've just finished a review of over 500 Stakeholder Requirements that included reviewing related items both up and downstream. It would have saved a few (hundred per user) clicks if this option was available.
  2. Show the description field for each related item in the related items list (currently just the 'ID' and 'name' fields are shown). Personally, I'd like to see the rich text 'description' field as a second row under the ID and name already shown. This would allow a full review of related items to be conducted from the one screen - we were reviewing overlap, contradiction, alignment and context during the review of Stakeholder Requirements previously mentioned and this would have been easier to do if this information was available together.
  3. The ability for the related item pop-up to show the description field in rich text with the formatting that would be shown when viewing the item normally.
  4. The ability to move the related item pop-up. Currently this is displayed right next to the associated project ID and blocks the other related items from being seen. It would help if the user could move the pop-up to see the wording of the other items.  As 2. above, this would help when comparing the other related items for overlap, contradiction and alignment.
  5. The ability to display the related item pop-up by hovering the cursor over the item project ID rather than clicking the ID