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Peter
Peter

Reputation: 1687

TFS: Change state category

I added a new state to my TFS-Template Ready for Shipping.

The Transitions are working fine, but I my new state acts like the Removed-State. So I think my new State has the wrong State-Category.

How can I change the State-Category of my new state?

I saw this link, but I dont find my process template there. And it should only change the template for a specific project. I think its not for TFS too.

Is there any easy way to do it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 154

Answers (1)

Shayki Abramczyk
Shayki Abramczyk

Reputation: 41775

The definition of categories is in a file called categories.xml (for each team project).

The syntax is:

<CATEGORIES>  
      <CATEGORY name="category display name" refname="category reference name">  
      <DEFAULTWORKITEMTYPE name="work item type reference name" />  
      <WORKITEMTYPE name="work item type reference name" />  
      </CATEGORY>  
</CATEGORIES>

You need to export the file with this command:

witadmin exportcategories /collection:CollectionURL /p:Project
[/f:FileName] [/e:Encoding]

Edit the file and add the new state to the correct category.

Import the file with this command:

witadmin importcategories /collection:CollectionURL /p:Project /f:FileName [/e:Encoding]

More information you can find here and here.

Upvotes: 1

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