Rich text in work items

re: Rich text in work items

Priya — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:11:01 GMT

As mentioned in the above comments, I have created a new 'description' field with 'html' type, but giving the reference name as system.description is not allowed.

Can I just use other class path like Microsoft.vsts.common.description? Is there a rule to have a particular field under specific reference path?

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re: Rich text in work items

Sunder Raman — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:45:08 GMT

Steve,

If your description field is already HTML field then you don't have to do anything. If not, you will have to create a new HTML field for this as there isn't a way to convert field types.

Hope this helps,

Sunder

re: Rich text in work items

skim — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:36:19 GMT

Hi Sunder,

I'm trying to implement RTF capabilities to the Description field. Do I just change the field type of the existing Description field or add a new Description field and replace the existing one?

Thanks in advance!

Steve

re: Rich text in work items

Sunder Raman — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:28:02 GMT

Erik,

Glad to hear this addresses what you were looking for.

Your description field needs to be a HTML field. Plain text fields don't support rich text. Ok, that last part sounds a little funny.

Hope this helps,

Sunder

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re: Rich text in work items

erik steiner — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:45:59 GMT

This is what I am looking for!

Unfortunately, this does not work in my environment. The formatting toolbar remains inactive when the Description field of my work item types are in focus. It works for the comments in the History-control.

My Description field is of type "plain text" and for the form it is set to "HtmlFieldControl".

Is there any other prerequisite for that to work?

Regards,

Erik