Working around not being able to delete a work item type

re: Working around not being able to delete a work item type

Buck Hodges — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:01:46 GMT

Brett, that's right. It's now part of the product in TFS 2010 using the witadmin command: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd236914.aspx.

Buck

re: Working around not being able to delete a work item type

Brett Ridenour — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:40:43 GMT

I just downloaded the Team Foundation Power Tools 2010 RC and have the Team Foundation 2010 RC installed, to my dismay it looks as thought the "destroywitd" is not longer supported by the power tools. Have I done something wrong?

re: Working around not being able to delete a work item type

Helder — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:15:10 GMT

Syntax correction:

re: Working around not being able to delete a work item type

Tony Edwards MSFT — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:42:55 GMT

That is correct. The transition security workaround will prevent workitems of that type from being saved to the server. It will NOT prevent the user attempting to create an item of that type in the UI. The UI will try to create any type that is in the list of work item types for the project. I would recommend in addition to the transition security (or other similar workaround) changing the form to be empty save perhaps a field with a defaulted value indicating that items of the type can no longer be saved.

re: Working around not being able to delete a work item type

James Dykes — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:23:34 GMT

I've tried the transition security and i'm sorry to say that it doesn't work. It does stop the users from saving the work item type but they can still create them.

I get the error "the field state contains a value that is not in the list of supported values" when trying to save.

is this what should happen or should it fail on the actual creation of the work item?

also adding a message like "Depricated" simply duplicates the work item type in the list of available types thus giving a separate depricated bug and a bug type.

I've found that the easiest way to kill off a work item type at present is to mark all possible fields with the <EMPTY /> attribute and upload via witimport.

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