After you update a work item type to include new or modified
attributes, you must manually update existing work items to synchronize
attributes.
About this task
Perform this task if you updated a work item type to include
new or modified attributes, as described in Defining work item types and attributes and Defining work item types and attributes in the web client.
Procedure
To manually update existing work items with new or modified
attributes:
- Run a query with query results that contain all the work
items that you want to update.
Note: Do not select any
relationships to be shown in the query results. If relationships are
shown, the Type icon is not displayed and you
cannot complete these steps. To clear all relationships that are shown,
in the Work Items view menu, select Relationships,
click Deselect all, and then click OK.
- In the Work Items view, select the
work items that you want to modify.
- In the row of one of the selected work items, right-click
the Type icon and select Synchronize
attributes.
Note: Synchronize Attributes is intended only to add missing attributes, not to remove no longer
needed attributes. This is to enure that you do not lose any information if you change your mind and
change the type back to the one that required those attributes.
- Create a query that returns the work items that require
a value for the synchronized attributes.
Note: Attribute
synchronization sets new attributes to their default value. To set
multiple attributes to any other value, use bulk edit in the query
result editor.