Comment Feed for Channel 9 - TFS Process Template Customization Guide - Deactivate a Work Item Type http://media.ch9.ms/ch9/def3/605bb0d4-ff61-488c-bf90-a078d31ddef3/TFSPTCG4Deactivate_220.jpg Channel 9 - TFS Process Template Customization Guide - Deactivate a Work Item Type The Team Foundation Server Process Template Customization Guidance delivers practical and scenario based guidance for the customization of Team Foundation Server Process Template and or Work Item Type. This is the first of five videos and presents a quick overview of the guidance, the artefacts and the team. These are the videos in this series: Scenario 1 - Iteration is Closed Down Scenario 2 - Force Selection of Reason Scenario 3 - Area Path Depth Validation this-> Scenario 4 - Deactivate a Work Item Type Scenario 5 - Cloning Work Item For more information please check out: Team Foundation Server Process Template Customization Guidance CodePlex project Understanding the Visual Studio ALM Rangers News about Visual Studio ALM and Team Foundation Server Get the latest Visual Studio ALM Rangers Solutions Everything you ever wanted to know about the Rangers Visual Studio ALM Rangers News http://tinyurl.com/RangersBlog en Wed, 22 May 2013 18:16:52 GMT Wed, 22 May 2013 18:16:52 GMT Rev9 Re: TFS Process Template Customization Guide - Deactivate a Work Item Type Thank you for publishing these.  Solution 1 is very good because it displays user friendly messages.  In my view solution 2 needs to be slightly modified to make it more elegant.  Instead of not allowing the Active state, I wuold go for creating a new initial state with a name like "New Work Item Type creation is not allowed" and put it ahead of the Active state.  This would also allow users to change an existing work item type back to Active when needed, while creating a new one would provide a better message than Active is not in the supported values.

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