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Alasdair Nottingham (611610) | asked Feb 04 '09, 3:46 p.m.
Hi,

After working through several iterations with RTC my team realized we wanted to augment the User Story work item type with an additional field. I have managed to add this field, and update the work item view to show it.

The problem is the new field is only settable on user stories created after I updated the User Story work item type.

Is there any way to get this new field on existing User Stories? I do not wish to have to cancel and recreate a whole load of User Stories.

Thanks
Alasdair

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Patrick Streule (4.9k21) | answered Feb 05 '09, 4:38 a.m.
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After working through several iterations with RTC my team realized we
wanted to augment the User Story work item type with an additional
field. I have managed to add this field, and update the work item
view to show it.

The problem is the new field is only settable on user stories created
after I updated the User Story work item type.

Is there any way to get this new field on existing User Stories? I do
not wish to have to cancel and recreate a whole load of User
Stories.

The option to upgrade existing work items is well hidden at the moment,
but we have plans to make it more discoverable:

- Create a query for all User Stories and run it
- In the Work Items view, right-click somewhere in the type column
- The context menu shows an entry 'Synchronize Attributes'
- Run it, and your existing user stories will have the new attribute

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Regards,
Patrick
Jazz Work Item Team

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