New work item attributes not showing up in new or existing stories
I have reordered some of the existing attributes to see if those changes are being made and they are. Also I do notice that when I add these two new attributes to the description section that the layout of the description section changes slightly in the eclipse client - instead of just the title "Description" and a text area, I see the title and then a label both saying "Description" and then the text area. This makes me think that something is being saved into the description section otherwise the new label would not be there. But still I cannot see me two new attributes.
Any help would be much appreciated.
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I'm not sure what is going wrong for you. I just added a custom attribute to the Description section of my Story work item type successfully. Here are the steps I followed:
- Opened the project area in the Eclipse client
- Clicked on Process Configuration
- In the Configuration tab, expanded Project Configuration > Configuration Data > Work Items > Types and Attributes
- In the Work Item Types section, clicked on Story
- In the Attributes section, clicked Add....
- Named my attribute "customdesc", assigned it type Boolean, and clicked OK
- In the Work Item Types section, clicked the pencil icon next to the Work Item Editor drop down box
- Expanded Overview
- Clicked Description
- Clicked Add Presentation....
- Chose to Unlock the section
- Added an Attribute-based Presentation with Attribute "customdesc" and Kind "Boolean"
- Clicked OK
- Clicked Save
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Created a new Story work item and saw my new attribute
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Thanks for the reply.
I did it through the web client not sure if that makes a difference. When I open the eclipse client I dont see any "Process Configuration" tab. Where would this be?
I haven't tried it through the web client, so I'm not sure if there are any things you have to watch out for. To try this in the Eclipse client, open the Team Artifacts view. Right-click on your project area and select Open. In the Project Area editor that opens, you'll see a Process Configuration tab at the bottom.
Thanks so much, should have done it all along in the eclipse client. Turns out I created the attributes in a category and not a story so then when I added them to a story they didn't shop up. It was hard to spot this mistake in the web client but it was glaringly obvious in the eclipse client what was wrong.
Its all working now, thanks again Lauren.
Glad you got it working!