The standard approach to simplify this is to have a "templates project
area", and store work items that are canonical instances of your
templates in that project area. Whenever you want to "modify a
template", just modify the canonical instance, and create a new template
from it.

Cheers,
Geoff

On 8/30/2010 4:52 PM, FionaLamont wrote:

I have found work item templates to be a very useful feature. However,
I have been unable to find out how to modify a template once it has
been created.

This means that if I want to correct a problem, or add a new task, I
must recreate the template from scratch. Or start with the existing
template, create a bunch of workitems, then save them as a new
template. It's all pretty time consuming.

Hello Fiona,

in RTC3.0 you'll be able to export/import workitem templates, which at least will allow for external editing. We've got a few requests to add internal editing support. If you like you can support the enhancement request by adding your use case here:

https://jazz.net/jazz/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/106490

HTH,
Jan.

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Jan Wloka
Jazz Tracking & Planning Team

I have found work item templates to be a very useful feature. However, I have been unable to find out how to modify a template once it has been created.

This means that if I want to correct a problem, or add a new task, I must recreate the template from scratch. Or start with the existing template, create a bunch of workitems, then save them as a new template. It's all pretty time consuming.