An existing Work Item template get deleted after importing a new Work Item template
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I am using RTC 4.0 to create and use work item templates.
I created a couple of templates, which contain Chinese chars. Now I want to rename templates. To achieve this, I export the template as XML, and then I use Notepad to change the template's name. I then use the Template import to re-import the template into RTC. However, I found that in some cases, some templates were deleted. Is this a bug? |
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I finally found the origin of my issue: the currently supported encoding for XML Templates is UTF-8 no BOM (which I verified is the encoding in the RTC exported template).
if I use Notepad++ to edit and save the file - encoding remains UTF-8 no BOM - and issue is not present. if I use Notepad to edit and save the file - encoding is changed by Notepad to UTF-8 which seems to cause the issue. So the workaround to my issue is to preserve the UTF-8 no BOM encoding by NOT using Notepad and rather use Notepad++. Also note that Ability to import work item templates with XML encoded as UTF-8 BOM (212753) should improve such behavior. |
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