Hi all,

At the top of work items, above the header, there's that little title gizmo with the type icon, the type name and the id in it. There's a drop down list of actions behind it as well.

Is it possible to edit what's shown in this title box? i.e. I'd like to remove the title name and put my own text instead.

Many Thanks,

Robin

Robin, I just had a look into the Editor Presentations in the Process Configuration>Process Configuration>Configuration Data>Work Items>Editor Presentations. There is a Header Section you could try to modify. Please try this out in a test project area on a test server 8-). I haven't tried that myself.

Hi Robin,

even in Excel, if you start with consecutive numbers, if things go away, the numbers are not consecutive anymore in the sheet. If you reuse the slots you add ambiguity, if you don't you increase the size of the sheet which at some point in time will cause loss of overview.

I had to use Excell for that kind of work and I outright hated it because of all the issues it has which RTC addresses for instance in dashboards. One source of data, latest information, no version chaos.

The only reason for the work item number is to be able to have a unique reference and easily search for and retrieve it. Because the number is unique, not even reused across types you don't have to know the type to find it.
Actually the number is consecutively picked which you see if you start a project or retrieve all work item types. The reason why it does not appear so later is because of all the different work item types created.

Having said that...

I am not sure if you could customize the presentations and remove the number from it. As you say, the number and type are not present.

You could probably create a custom field for a consecutive custom number, but I suspect it will not be easy. For one thing you would have to generate the number and store the last number in use. A post condition might be usable. I don't think it is worth the effort though 8-).

You could also create a work item, to be able to have an internal ID with customizable rules. There might even be work items for this, because sometimes customer have numbering schemas they want to implement, where the number is composed of information form several fields or follows a pattern. So search for those work items before you do. Your pattern would be a consecutive number, I assume.