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Jay
Jay

Reputation: 2875

How can I add text to a work item

We have a few bugs and change requests which have a complicated iteration path. This results in people coming over the team to ask 'Where do we raise items' a lot.

As you can't set a default value for the iteration path in TFS 2010 we think the best solution would be to add a string of text under the field which we can manually update every 7 weeks with the correct area to raise items in.

However TFS doesn't seem to allow just a line of text on its work items as a control. Is there a way to add a line of display text i.e. Not a field you edit, but just to inform those writing the items?

Please note that it needs to be visible at all times, using the tooltip 'help text' field on a control is not enough in this case.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 535

Answers (2)

Ewald Hofman
Ewald Hofman

Reputation: 12668

You can use the LabelControl for this purpose.

You can not have a default in the work item for the iteration path, but what you can do is making use or the template url in web access or the work item templates in the power tools to create a work item that is prepopulated with values.

Upvotes: 1

Nock
Nock

Reputation: 6609

What about a custom field with a display control in read-only? You can give a default value to the field and the "read-only" control prevent other to change it.

Upvotes: 0

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