In our last post in this series, Gregg blogged about securing a work item type . Another question along these lines: “How can I save the resolved reason? I want to create metrics based on how bugs were resolved, but the value of the ‘Reason’ field is...

In our last post in this series, Sunder blogged about Deactivating a work item type . Here’s another popular request: “Secure creation of a work item type”. For example, people say: “Only my Testers can create bugs” “Only my Business Analysts can create...

In our last post in this series, Gregg blogged about forcing selection of reason . Let’s take a look at another question that we often get: “How do I deactivate/retire a work item type? I don’t want to destroy the type because I want to report on it,...

Compensating Records What are compensating records? First a little background. Whenever a work item is updated a new revision is created. These revisions are moved over to the Warehouse and stored in the various Work Item Dimension and Fact tables...

In our last post in this series, Sunder blogged about Closing down an iteration . Let’s take a look at another question: “ How do I force people to select a reason? ” We’ve had people come to us with the request to force their users to select a reason...

In our last post in this series, Gregg blogged about validating area path . Let’s take a look at another question: “ How do I close an iteration so that no one can log new items against it? ” For this example, let’s say we have completed Iteration...