Changing the work item presentation editor: How does it affect the old work items?
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Hi, I did a change on a work item editor that has a thousand related work items and then I did a query to search some work items, and the changes I did was already applied. I haven't done any manual synchronization. Is there a configuration that automatically sync the work item after editing its presentation?
No, there is no setting. Depends on the changes that you perform. If you add new attributes and then include them in the editor, then you need to manually synchronize. It synchronizes automatically for presentation-changes alone.
You need to distinguish modifying the work item editor of a work item type from modifying the data schema of a work item type. There is one current instance of a work item editor for a work item type, so when you modify that, the modified editor is what is used for all instanced of that work item type. When you add a new attribute to the data schema of a work item type, that has no effect on existing instances of that work item type, and has to be explicitly applied to them.