Custom attributes, shared contents, and different clients
Context:
RTC 1.0.1.1
Scrum template, moderately modified
I wanted to add 2 sections to the work item type Story, each containing 1 or more custom attrributes that is an enumeration. I added a tab to the Story type and added the sections and attributes there. I was warned by RTC that this was "shared content" but as I added the attributes to a new tab on type Story I was not concerned (perhaps I should have been?).
The result is that now other types (notably type task) show the new section headers on the Custom tab - but not the attributes - and this only on the web client. The Eclipse client shows nothing (as expected) on the Custom tab for type task (I looked at the same task in both the Eclipse and web clients).
1) What should I have done to add the sections/attributes so that they only showed up on type Story?
2) Why does the web client show these section headers (but not the attributes) and the Eclipse client doesn't?
Thanks.
RTC 1.0.1.1
Scrum template, moderately modified
I wanted to add 2 sections to the work item type Story, each containing 1 or more custom attrributes that is an enumeration. I added a tab to the Story type and added the sections and attributes there. I was warned by RTC that this was "shared content" but as I added the attributes to a new tab on type Story I was not concerned (perhaps I should have been?).
The result is that now other types (notably type task) show the new section headers on the Custom tab - but not the attributes - and this only on the web client. The Eclipse client shows nothing (as expected) on the Custom tab for type task (I looked at the same task in both the Eclipse and web clients).
1) What should I have done to add the sections/attributes so that they only showed up on type Story?
2) Why does the web client show these section headers (but not the attributes) and the Eclipse client doesn't?
Thanks.
One answer
1) What should I have done to add the sections/attributes so that they
only showed up on type Story?
Editing the shared structure means that these parts are also used for
other presentations. That's why the new sections show up also for other
types.
In order to edit only the presentation of e.g. the Defect, you would have
to copy. This is quite easily possible in 2.0, but was harder in 1.0 if I
remember correctly.
2) Why does the web client show these section headers (but not the
attributes) and the Eclipse client doesn't?
I am not quite sure about this. Maybe the Eclipse client has the behavior
to not show the sections at all if they don't contain any attributes.
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Regards,
Patrick
Jazz Work Item Team