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What SmarterWidgets are

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management is the backbone of requirements, test and change management in many regulated industries. It is powerful, but some everyday tasks still take hundreds of clicks: cleaning formatting after a Word import, removing outdated links, restructuring a module, checking which baselines can be archived or which users have access to which projects.

SmarterWidgets are small applications that you add to the ELM Mini Dashboard, next to a DOORS Next module or in any other ELM application. Each widget solves one clearly defined problem, shows you what it found before anything changes, and then does the work for the whole module or for the artifacts you selected.

Why teams use them

• Hours of manual work become minutes. Tasks that would mean opening artifacts one by one run for a whole module in a single pass.
• Fewer mistakes. Every widget checks the data first and shows exactly what will change. Destructive actions always ask for confirmation.
• Full transparency. Widgets that change data offer an Excel change report of every run, so you can review, share and archive what was done.
• Safe to use. The widgets work with the standard IBM APIs and with your own permissions. Running them inside a change set lets you discard anything you do not want.
• No installation on user machines. Widgets run in the browser, inside the ELM interface your teams already use.

Where they help

The widgets cover five areas of everyday work with IBM ELM: the quality of requirement content, links and traceability, module structure, configuration and access governance, and reporting. The catalog below lists them all.