How to add edit items to the predefined lists in TFS Work Items

Question

I am trying to follow this article to do the same for adding a new State to a particular project's Bug work item. By default I can only see this . I wanted to add a new state, "On Hold"

But I perhaps followed it wrong and ended up getting this

The error says "Open Transition Active~On Hold to add at least one Reason." How do I open that transition and where do I add one reason. What is the reason it is talking about? I only want to add a new state.

Thanks for your time...

KMoraz · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-21T07:43:40.010

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Double click the Active~On Hold Transition , select the Reasons tab and type in at least one reason.

Reasons

After saving the .wit file, you must click Refresh from the Team Explorer menu in order to see changes. Team Explorer refresh TFS

edited Jun 21 '12 at 07:43

answered Jun 20 '12 at 14:16

KMoraz

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I did that but it is not showing against the State drop down..I still have only Active showing... have I connected it properly? – user20358 Jun 21 '12 at 05:03
This applies for existing items. To move new items directly to `On Hold` you need to create another transition from the very first transition (the top left in your screenshot). Also don't forget to refresh TFS data after each modification. – KMoraz Jun 21 '12 at 07:47
How do I do that? I have a test project that I created on TFS for which I am the admin. When I tried to log a new bug it gave me just the default Active state. Then I did what you recommended and tried again by opening a new bug window. Still the only thing I saw was Active. I could not see On Hold in the drop down. – user20358 Jun 21 '12 at 10:01
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After you SAVE a work item in `Active` state, do you see the `On Hold` state? – KMoraz Jun 21 '12 at 11:19

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 22 '12 at 06:20

In the work item editor, double click on the Transition between your Active and On hold states. Under 'Transition Detail' you should see 'From: Active' and 'To: On Hold'. Change 'From: Active' to blank so it should show 'From: '. Now save the editors, click 'refresh' from the Team Explorer menu and any new bugs you create will have 'On Hold' as an option for the state.

How to add edit items to the predefined lists in TFS Work Items

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