How to add edit items to the predefined lists in TFS Work Items

Question

I am trying to follow this article to do the same for adding a new State to a particular project's Bug work item. By default I can only see . I wanted to add a new state, "On Hold"

But I perhaps followed it wrong and ended up getting

The error says "Open Transition Active~On Hold to add at least one Reason." How do I open that transition and where do I add one reason. What is the reason it is talking about? I only want to add a new state.

Thanks for your time...

Answer 1

In the work item editor, double click on the Transition between your Active and On hold states. Under 'Transition Detail' you should see 'From: Active' and 'To: On Hold'. Change 'From: Active' to blank so it should show 'From: '. Now save the editors, click 'refresh' from the Team Explorer menu and any new bugs you create will have 'On Hold' as an option for the state.

Answer 2

Double click the Active~On Hold Transition , select the Reasons tab and type in at least one reason.

After saving the .wit file, you must click Refresh from the Team Explorer menu in order to see changes.