Making New type attributes retroactive
Hi all,
I have an existing workitem type that needs a new attribute. As far as I know only new workitems of that type can show this new attribute on the presentation. I suppose that old workitems mantain its original data model. We need that new attribute in all preexisting workitems of that type so we need a workaround. Is there any common solution for this situation?? Our first idea to solve this is to create a new type identical to the original but adding the new attribute and then change the type of the affected workitems from the old one to the new one. With this operation all the previously informed fields are mapped correctly and the new one appears empty. Is this a good solution? Thanks in advance Andres |
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I have an existing workitem type that needs a new attribute. As far as This is the typical way of doing this: 1) Create a query that selects the work items that don't have the attribute yet 2) Select the work items 3) Right-click on the type column 4) Choose 'Synchronize Attributes' from the context menu -- Regards, Patrick Jazz Work Item Team |
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Bufff!
I didn't know that feature! Thank you very much!! Our first option was very heavy to do ... Thanks again Andres |
Bufff! The feature is really hard to discover... ;) But there are plans to integrate this into the flow of creating new attributes for a type. -- Regards, Patrick Jazz Work Item Team |
Keep in mind that if you have a lot of artifacts you may need to do it more than once -- I believe the default view of a query retrieves ony 1000 workitems.
Also, the shift-select for multi select can be weird if you have a large number of items in a list -- use ctrl-A to select all and be patient. |
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