The Team Foundation Server Power Tools allow you to edit templates online or offline. In the online mode, changes you make are instantly visible when you save the changes so be careful. I would advise creating a dummy Team Project to do the customizations on first before rolling the changes out to actual Team Projects. The offline mode works by saving the work item definitions locally as XML and making changes to the XML file. You will need to import the XML to the Team Project to deploy the changes. So let’s take a look at adding a the following fields to Product Backlog Item WIT of the Scrum 1.0 template: • Deployed in Version • Actual Hours • Estimated Hours Note: I know Actual/Estimates aren’t part of Scrum, but the higher-ups like to track it. It’s “Scrum-But”:) 1. Etka 7 4 Pl Download Site.

Tools Process Editor Work Item Types Open WIT From Server 2. Select your Project Collection (in this case DefaultCollection) 3. Select your Team Project then Product Backlog Item 4. The Work Item Editor will show allowing you to Add/Edit Fields, Modify the Layout and Customize the Workflow Adding a new field – Deployed in Version • In the Fields tab click New • Fill in the following fields: • Name: Deployed in Version • Display name of the field • Type: String • Type of the field • Reference Name: EricPhan.DeployedInVersion • Internal identifier for the field (used in reports, forms etc) • Help Text • Descriptive text about the field, will show in tooltip • Reportable: Dimension • Allows you to define how this field should be used in the TfsAnalysis cube. Options are: • Dimension – if you want to use the values of this fields as a filter • Measure – if you want to be able to report on this field (you also need to select the Formula which determines how this field will be aggregated e.g. Sum, Average or Count • Detail – if this field is just data • None The Rules tab allows you to specify rules for the field.

Process Template Customization: Editing An Existing Work Item Type. Team Foundation Server 2010 includes process templates. Learn how to customize work. Customize Work Item’s fields with Rules – Alkampfer's Place. Customize Tfs Process Template. Basic of TFS Process Template Customization. Adding Field to a Work. Configure team settings. Set team defaults. Inheritance process model. Manage processes. Customize a Hosted XML process. Add or modify a field. Apply a field rule. Manage roll out of the new web form. Change the workflow. Work item type or form. Add or modify a work item type. Backlogs and boards.