I do not see any functionality to attach a note to a work item. In my view this is "must have" for any modern tracking solution. And it is available on many systems. When a bug is submitted - we need place to post qwestions, clarifications etc.
What is the approach in Team Studio? Is any way to do this or such feature have been just pushed to to future releases?
Alex.
After some digging throug the interface, I discovered that user can attach a free text comment to all changes in the work item. After all, I can just attach a comment without making any changes.
A bit of confusing place for this feature, but it works.
I use the "Description" field for describing the work item, or add a comment in the history tab to add a note. The tab also shows you which fields changed.
When looking at a work item that has been recently assigned to me, after reading the descrption tab I go straight to the History tab to see what has been going on and what other people say.
Screen shots etc can also be attached via the "Attachments" tab, and the "Links" tab can be used to link to other TFS artifcats such as other work items, changeset but we sometime also us it to link to web pages that may contain more information (for instance a forum post from somebody reporting the problem etc)
Hope that helps.
Martin.
A Notes tab would be helpful. That is how my current system does it, and we have Note Types as well (e.g. Comment, Release Note, etc.).
I have started to investigate how to add a Notes tab, and I can do it with this:
<Tab Label="Notes">
</Tab>
But the trick seems to be the <Control> element, e.g. the Links tab has this:
<Control Type="LinksControl" />
Not sure how to add a custom control to this. Does anybody know?
-Larry
Larry,
I think I have just the same requirement - dedicated Notes tab. It seems to me that custom controls are not possible now. You have to choose from predefined set. In your History control there is a place for text comment. This is the only way to add notes to a workitem now, IMO.
Alex
Thanks Alex. Hopefully vNext of VSTS will allow us to plug in custom controls.
-Larry
But what about snapping in my own grid that will allow multiple notes to be added? This doesn't seem to be possible at the moment.
