Titlebar for custom workitems - Summary only?
I notice that the title bar of my test custom workitem says "<untitled>". By default, RTC seems to use the Summary field value for the titlebar text. How do I change that to use a different field's value for the title text? I have no use for the Summary field in most of my custom work items.
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Geoffrey Clemm (30.1k●3●30●35)
| answered Jan 28 '12, 5:08 p.m.
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Is there a reason you can't just have the field that you want to appear
in the title be the Summary field (instead of defining some custom field for it)? Cheers, Geoff On 1/26/2012 12:53 PM, crvich wrote: I notice that the title bar of my test custom workitem says |
Is there a reason you can't just have the field that you want to appear in the title be the Summary field (instead of defining some custom field for it)? In some cases, yes, and that's what I've done in the meantime, but this forces the attribute to be a Small HTML type (which may not be appropriate for the main/identifying piece of data in the work item) and also adds obfuscation by making our internal scripts reference an attribute name (Summary) that has nothing to do with the data it contains (e.g., RetainComponent). I realize the label on the presentation can be anything, but it's an annoying kludge for the scripts. We have about 20 custom work items for our product (most of which have several associated scripts), so once we go down this road of fudging the attribute name we're effectively going to be stuck with it forever. But I'm guessing from your reply that Summary is indeed hardcoded in RTC as the identifying data. |
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Geoffrey Clemm (30.1k●3●30●35)
| answered Jan 30 '12, 2:53 p.m.
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Yes, that is my understanding.
In general, I actually believe it is the right approach to motivate users to re-use the standard fields, since this will make generalized querying more feasible. So even if "title" isn't the name you would pick for this field, having every schema use "title" as its "title-like" attribute makes it more feasible to eventually support general queries for work items with a given title. Cheers, Geoff On 1/30/2012 1:23 PM, crvich wrote: gmclemmwrote: |
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