showing a custom attribute in the workitem form

Annie Ying (206●2●10●3) | asked Jul 03 '07, 12:18 p.m.
JAZZ DEVELOPER

I'm looking at the Jazz 0.6 Milestone New and Noteworthy document, and we found some information about custom attributes representation. Basically the document says we need to add the following xml fragments to the process configuration file:


&lt;static-configuration-data id=&quot;com.ibm.team.workitem.configuration.workItemTypes&quot; xmlns=&quot;http://com.ibm.team.workitem/workitemTypes&quot;&gt;

.....

			&lt;customAttributes

   				category=&quot;com.ibm.team.workitem.configuration.workItemType&quot;&gt;

				&lt;customAttribute

					id=&quot;lowerEstimate1&quot;

					type=&quot;string&quot;

					name=&quot;Lower Estimate1&quot;

				/&gt;

			&lt;/customAttributes&gt;

		&lt;/static-configuration-data&gt;

	

		&lt;static-configuration-data

			id=&quot;com.ibm.team.workitem.ui.editor.configuration.layout&quot;

			xmlns=&quot;http://com.ibm.team.workitem.ui.editor/layout&quot;&gt;

			&lt;customAttributes&gt;

				&lt;customAttribute

					attributeId=&quot;lowerEstimate1&quot;

					target=&quot;com.ibm.team.workitem.ui.editor.details.assignment&quot;

				/&gt;

			&lt;/customAttributes&gt;

		&lt;/static-configuration-data&gt;

However, we have some trouble making the attribute show up on the workitem page -- the attribute is created, but it doesn't seem to get added as a custom attribute of the workitem. Does anybody know what's wrong?

Thanks very much!
Annie

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Marcel Bihr, Jazz Work Item team (1.4k) | answered Jul 04 '07, 2:33 a.m.
JAZZ DEVELOPER

Hi Annie

aying wrote:

static-configuration-data
id="com.ibm.team.workitem.configuration.workItemTypes"
xmlns="http://com.ibm.team.workitem/workitemTypes"
....
customAttributes
category="com.ibm.team.workitem.configuration.workItemType"
<customAttribute
id="lowerEstimate1"
type="string"
name="Lower Estimate1"
/
</customAttributes
/static-configuration-data

Try to set the category to "com.ibm.team.workitem.workItemType" . It

should work then.
FYI: Be aware that custom attribute definitions that are deleted from
the xml file still exist in the repository. Reusing attribute ids can
therefore lead to unexpected behavior (is not a problem in this case,
but can be confusing otherwise).

static-configuration-data
id="com.ibm.team.workitem.ui.editor.configuration.layout"
xmlns="http://com.ibm.team.workitem.ui.editor/layout"
<customAttributes
<customAttribute
attributeId="lowerEstimate1"
target="com.ibm.team.workitem.ui.editor.details.assignment"
/
</customAttributes
/static-configuration-data
This looks fine and should work.

Marcel

0	permanent link Annie Ying (206●2●10●3) \| answered Jul 07 '07, 1:08 a.m. JAZZ DEVELOPER thanks for catching the typo. that did it!

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