Multiple Planned for value for a single Work Item RTC
Hello,
I query Work Items using the "Planned For" attribute for reporting. Recently, I have multiple components and it happens I accept change sets from an other component in order to reuse work, but this action have 2 cases:
- If the accepted change set doesn't create a conflict, then the change set is directly accepted.
- If the accepted change set create a conflict, then you must merge and create a new Work Item to relate your merge to.
The thing is, my other components can have a different iteration than the orignal component (of course the Work Item can be old enough to be in a different iteration), and when I query my Work Items using the "Planned For" attribute, the accepted change sets with no new Work Item are not displayed.
This is logic, but I would like to have the Work Items with the change sets used in different component, displayed in both queries (old and new one) for my reports.
Do you know if you can set multiple values to the attribute "Planned For" or if you have a workaround other than using tags ?
Thanks a lot.
2 answers
The semantics of PlannedFor is "the iteration in which the change sets for this work item will be created". This is important because the estimated cost of creating those change sets (a property of the work item) will then be assigned to that iteration, and the FiledAgainst property will indicate which team will be doing the work.
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We will just have to agree to disagree then. If the work to be done is to create a change set (which appears to be the case here, based on the question being asked), then the change set is the work to be done. It is very common for customers to say "I need this feature applied to these other three streams", and then they look for a way to make that statement, and verify that it has been done. I am not positive that this is what Hugo was trying to do (thus my request for a clarification on the report that he needs), but that's what it sounds like.
I am happy to agree to disagree, Geoff!
Me as well! We almost always agree on everything, so having even a minor disagreement is always interesting :-).