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Gerard
Gerard

Reputation: 13397

User defined field in wit of tfs

In tfs for a work item type: can I define a user defined field common to all work item types in the collection?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 350

Answers (1)

DaveShaw
DaveShaw

Reputation: 52788

Yes & No.

Yes

When you define a field in a WIT, for example <FIELD name="My Field" refname="Company.MyField" ... /> you add that field to the collection.

You can see the fields in your collection by running:

witadmin listfieldfs /collection:http://tfs-server:8080/tfs/MyCollection

Any queries or reports you write or run against this collection can see this field. It appears in the Tfs_Warehouse database against your collection also.

No

You will have to add the field (the XML snippet above) to each work item type that you want to be able to store data against. If you are accessing it via the API, Excel, or something other than the work item then that is all you need.

Global List

You can share lists for the fields (such as a list of the teams for a "Team Detected By" field - for example) by creating a Global List.

Upvotes: 1

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