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Lalindu
Lalindu

Reputation: 349

Customize workitem (bug) and add 'Field' to top group of workitem in TFS

I am trying to customize workitem (bug) and replace 'Area' with 'Team' in workitem UI in TFS.

I was following below documentation to achieve this.

However I found that weblayout configuration of workitems (e.g. bug) are not clear. As per the below screenshot (from documentation), it looks like I can add control to section where status/ reason available, but in reality I cannot add this because these controls available under "SystemControls". My requirement is replacing area with team .

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If you have experienced/ tried similar scenario, Can you provide more specific example on this?. Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 357

Answers (2)

nschonni
nschonni

Reputation: 4129

Although https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/reference/xml/weblayout-xml-elements?view=tfs-2017 says that Replaces only works in 2018, we use it in 2017 Update 3.

<Control Label="Team" Type="FieldControl" FieldName="Fabrikam.Team" Replaces="System.Areay" />

You probably also need to do this https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/reference/use-team-fields-instead-area-paths?view=tfs-2017 but I haven't tested that. We use a Team field alongside Area

Upvotes: 1

Daniel Mann
Daniel Mann

Reputation: 59055

Area is a required field in all TFS work items. You can't replace it or remove it as work items will not function properly without it.

Upvotes: 0

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