Hard to asssign Unassigned Items to an Iteration Plan
I was hoping I could create a Work Item and then simply drag and drop it into the proper Iteration Plan.
I tried dragging from the Work Item view into the Iteration plan explorer under Plans and I never got the option to Drop.
What finally worked for me was:
Open The Iteration Plan on the Planned Items tab
Drag from the Work Items view a work item and Drop it on the Planned Item Tab for that Iteration.
It turns out that it is working as expected - but perhaps someone may find this as a usability issue as well.
Jim.
I tried dragging from the Work Item view into the Iteration plan explorer under Plans and I never got the option to Drop.
What finally worked for me was:
Open The Iteration Plan on the Planned Items tab
Drag from the Work Items view a work item and Drop it on the Planned Item Tab for that Iteration.
It turns out that it is working as expected - but perhaps someone may find this as a usability issue as well.
Jim.
4 answers
Thanks Jim, the title of your forum entry is "Hard to assign Unassigned Items to an Iteration Plan" but the body of your entry doesn't say anything specifically about unassigned work items. Was there something unique about unassigned work items that caused you difficulty?
Also, did you mean 'unassigned' in the sense that the work item lacked a category or in the sense that the work item was not planned for any particular milestone?
Also, did you mean 'unassigned' in the sense that the work item lacked a category or in the sense that the work item was not planned for any particular milestone?
So I create a Work Item and don't know yet exactly to which iteration I want to assign it - So I leave that field blank. Right now as I bootstrap a project and I try to transfer all my work items from an Excel Spreadsheet into Jazz I may just want to create the work item and then decide later to which iteration they should belong.
The intuitive approach is that anything that can be drag and dropped could be dragged and dropped if its target is present in the explorer or any other canvas. In this case my work items are listed in their view and in the explorer I see my possible iterations.
Hope it is a little more clear
thanks for your reply
Jim.
The intuitive approach is that anything that can be drag and dropped could be dragged and dropped if its target is present in the explorer or any other canvas. In this case my work items are listed in their view and in the explorer I see my possible iterations.
Hope it is a little more clear
thanks for your reply
Jim.
One idea would be to create a generic "Future" iteration and then use the highly efficient Iteration Plan editor to rapidly create work items there. I find I can create work items an order of magnitude faster in the plan editor vs. the work item editor.
As you figure out an actual iteration you want to target work items to, you can use the "Plan for" context menu action to shift them to real iterations.
As you figure out an actual iteration you want to target work items to, you can use the "Plan for" context menu action to shift them to real iterations.
Hi,
I too would recommend creating the work items in a plan. But instead
creating a generic future iteration, you can also create a plan for a
top level iteration.
Cheers,
MikeS
bhiggins wrote:
I too would recommend creating the work items in a plan. But instead
creating a generic future iteration, you can also create a plan for a
top level iteration.
Cheers,
MikeS
bhiggins wrote:
One idea would be to create a generic "Future" iteration and
then use the highly efficient Iteration Plan editor to rapidly create
work items there. I find I can create work items an order of
magnitude faster in the plan editor vs. the work item editor.
As you figure out an actual iteration you want to target work items
to, you can use the "Plan for" context menu action to shift
them to real iterations.