Importing a WorkItem Type from another Project Template
The Scrum template can, however, be enhancedHow can I do that? When I add a new WorkItem Type in my Scrum Template, there's no way to navigate to the WorkItem Types other than the Scrum WorkItem Type already provide.
with formal aspects if the enhancements are supported by the standard process customization. For
example, a customer can add a custom work item type "Risk" to the Scrum template using the Risk
work item type definition in the Formal template.
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Comments
risk is ONE workitem in the formal template, not the ONLY workitem.
you cannot merge templates, and cannot 'import' a template into an existing project.
you can CREATE a project from a template but that is all.
manually.. open two project/template configurations concurrently, view in one, click to other,
click Add for workitem type,
repeat for attributes of workitem,
repeat for workflows of workitem
repeat for presentations of workitem.
etc.(back and forth)
Comments
Unfortunately u have to view the workitem definition, attributes, presentations, etc..
and manually type it over again on the other project.
If you think you will want to do this again, save the target project xml source before any changes. then save it after you have it all working.. and then use XMLDiff to get a file of the differences..
with that differences file you can apply it to another project area with XMLPatch.
I did this for a custom workitem I developed in a sandbox. But I knew ahead of time I was going to want to do this.
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sam detweiler
Jan 03 '14, 9:02 a.m.there is no automated way to copy workitem types from one place to another.
also, project area templates are used to initialize a project space, but are not used after that. (so any changes are not reflected in existing projects)..
The only way to share project structure is to use the share project area function, but the base project has to be created (from a template).