An enumeration is a type of work item attribute that describes
a set of values. For example, in the Scrum process, the
Priority and Severity attributes are enumerations. You can use enumerations
to define new attributes, and you can add and modify values for existing
attributes.
About this task
Enumerations consist of a set of literals in a specific order.
You must designate one literal as the default literal, which is selected
when a user creates a work item. You can use the same enumeration
in multiple custom attributes.
- In the Team Artifacts view of the Work
Items perspective, right-click the project area and select Open.
- Click the Process Configuration tab.
Expand Project Configuration, then Configuration
Data, and then Work Items. Click Enumerations.
Select the enumeration that you want to edit, or click Add to
define a new enumeration. Click Add in the Enumeration section
to add a literal to the enumeration. Enter a name for the value. Click Add
Icons and navigate to a graphics file to use as the icon
for that literal. Use Move Up and Move
Down to adjust the order in which the values appear in
the Work Item editor. Select one literal to be the default. To make
an enumeration attribute a required field, define an Unassigned literal
and select this literal in the Unassigned Literal field.
See Defining required and implied properties. When
you finish adding and editing enumeration literals, click Save to
save your changes.