workItem.categoryName in an email template

Ratheesh,

as the top level category is not persisted in the work item by default (just the actual "filed against" in the workItem.categoryName) the email mechanism would not have anything to retrieve and parse.
I looked at the Email Wiki and also the used language VLT but that does not seem to provide any mechanism to parse more info. So the only viable solution I currently see (aside from filing an Enhancement Request to have workItem.categorypath be included as a List of the category hierarchy) would be:
- introduce a custom attribute in your work item, but do not expose it on the Editors
- make this dependant on changes of Filed Against
- when Filed Against is changed, it will be parsed to stuff the "top level category) into that hidden custom attribute

Then you can use that custom attribute in your email template as per the wiki.

Would this be an acceptable approach? If this answers your question, please mark it as accepted.

Best,
Arne