Yes, you can prevent a workitem from being stored by setting security restrictions on a field (Not For Everyone works good), or doing as you says. Either way the workitem can't be saved, but it still appears on the Create menus and you can fill out all the fields, it's when you try to save it will stop you. So this works, but it's not very pretty or user friendly.
Btw, the Excel tip I mentioned only works in some scenarios. The workitems have to be in the initial state (for a Agile Bug f.e., this means the Active state). This limits its usefulness a little bit........ And history get lost, and attachments.....which lower usefulness a little bit more. It's mentioned near the bottom of this link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181277.aspx. Individual work items can be copied over by using the But have you considered setting up a new Team Project with the correct workitems, and just branch the source over to that project ? You could then leave the whole "old" team project as history. If you also leave the workitems which has passed the initial state, and just move over the others. Individual work items can be copied over by using the Create Copy of workitem command. There is also the possibility of coding your way, see Mark Browns blog here http://blogs.msdn.com/mab/archive/2006/10/02/Making-a-shallow-copy-of-a-single-Team-Project-from-one-server-to-another-or-the-same-server.aspx for an approach to this. Terje From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dylan Tusler Sent: 26. mars 2009 00:08 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Is it possible to rename a Work Item Type? We "disabled" a work item type by putting some impossible conditions on the workflow. Can't remember what, something like a required user field populated with nonsense. Anyway, it means that people can't get off the start line with the work item. Dylan. ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Terje Sandstrøm Sent: Thursday, 26 March 2009 5:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Is it possible to rename a Work Item Type? Hi ! AFAIK, there is no way to rename a work item type directly, neither from Team Explorer nor from TFPT command line. You would have to create the new one, then delete the other one. If you have existing workitems there, you could move them over by using Excel. And afaik again, there is no way yet to prevent a workitem to appear on the different Create menus (also remember the Add Related menu..). I've had a similar problem in the webaccess client, where a client didn't want his customers to be able to create all of the workitem types, but only a few. We ended up solving that by modifying the javascript code in the aspx file. It worked, but only for that user interface. And next version we'll have to do it again... I've talked to some folks at MS about this, and they say they've heard the shout. May be coming after VS 2010 thought. Best regards Terje Sandstrom From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Sniderman Sent: 25. mars 2009 20:23 To: [email protected] Subject: Is it possible to rename a Work Item Type? I am doing some major customization of Process Template for a client. I know I can delete and rename fields in a WIT using the witfields command Is it possible to rename an existing work item type (the type itself?) Also - if they have a type they want to keep for historical purpose - but don't want to allow new ones to be added - is there a way to not have that type appear in the "Create New" menu? Thanks! 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